Serotonin
Roman
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- 9,99 €
Descrição da editora
Als der 46-jährige Protagonist von SEROTONIN, dem neuen Roman des Goncourt-Preisträgers Michel Houellebecq, Bilanz zieht, beschließt er, sich aus seinem Leben zu verabschieden – eine Entscheidung, an der auch das revolutionäre neue Antidepressivum Captorix nichts zu ändern vermag, das ihn in erster Linie seine Libido kostet. Alles löst er auf: Beziehung, Arbeitsverhältnis, Wohnung. Wann hat diese Gegenwart begonnen? In der Erinnerung an die Frauen seines Lebens und im Zusammentreffen mit einem alten Studienfreund, der als Landwirt in einem globalisierten Frankreich ums Überleben kämpft, erkennt er, wann und wo er sich selbst und andere verraten hat.
Noch nie hat Michel Houellebecq so ernsthaft und voller Emotion über die Liebe geschrieben. Zugleich schildert er in SEROTONIN den Kampf und den drohenden Untergang eines klassischen Wirtschaftszweigs in unserer Zeit der Weltmärkte und der gesichtslosen EU-Bürokratie.
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In his latest provocation, Houellebecq (Submission) brilliantly pokes at modern questions of free trade, social decline, and overmedication, while continually undermining the work with puerile sequences that have little to do with the plot. Florent-Claude Labrouste is an aging, chain-smoking Ministry of Agriculture employee based in Paris. After a brief interlude in Spain, he realizes that he despises his live-in girlfriend, Yuzu. Shortly after, he also discovers that she has been in a sequence of gang-bang videos (one involving dogs) and decides to vanish. Labrouste quits his job, takes up residence in a hotel, and starts taking a pill for his depression, one that kills his libido. Suddenly emboldened, he goes back to the Normandy of his youth in search of his lost love, Camille. There, he lives with his old friend Aymeric, a depressed dairy farmer struggling against E.U. quotas. The farmers arm themselves, and a violent denouement looms. Along the way there is a bizarre child pornography sequence that seems to exist mainly to perpetuate Houellebecq's long-standing enfant terrible reputation. And yet, despite so much that alienates (Labrouste's causal racist and sexist remarks pepper the book), Houellebecq is a seductive, talented writer, and he remains strangely prophetic about current issues (in this case, protests against free trade). The result is an unexpected page-turner about the dairy trade.
