by Frank Wynne (Author), Michel Houellebecq (Author), Michel Houellebecq (Author), Frank Wynne (Author)
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised (Les Particules elementaires) tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: First UK Edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 0099283360
ISBN 13: 9780099283362
Book Overview: The gloriously moving and extravagantly filthy cult classic from the internationally bestselling author of Submission
Prizes: Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002. Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002.