An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.
Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a ra...
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.
Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. Atomised followed in 1998, and Platform in 2001. He published a book of poems, The Art of Struggle, in 1996. After a publicity tour for Platform led to his being taken to court for incit...
Michel Houellebecq is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. Atomised followed in 1998, and Platform in 2001. He published a book of poems, The Art of Struggle, in 1996. After a publicity tour for Platform led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he moved to Ireland to write for several years. He currently resides in France.[3] In 2010 he published the Prix Goncourt-winning La Carte et le Territoire (published the same year in English as The Map and the Territory) and, in 2015,
If you enjoy bleak social commentaries that stir and discomfort, where ideas are presented with little dressing in the form of plot and character development, where the scientific references are accur...If you enjoy bleak social commentaries that stir and discomfort, where ideas are presented with little dressing in the form of plot and character development, where the scientific references are accurate and à propos, this is a book for you.(展开)
0 有用 半个桃李林檎 2014-09-29 16:16:20
这是一本极其阴暗的小说,会让人读得特别痛苦,那种感觉有点像《金色笔记》女主角每天躺在床上顾影自怜起不来。书的主角是同母异父的兄弟,一个不能爱,一个性饥渴。作者通过人物表达出来的人生观厌女、厌世、歧视穆斯林,所以一定不怕话题争议性。但书最大的亮点也应该是对于残酷命运的写照,对人物负面情绪的烘托,和对各种人生哲学的讨论。对于敏感话题的大胆探讨也算有勇气的尝试
1 有用 OO-san 2012-02-17 11:27:22
If you enjoy bleak social commentaries that stir and discomfort, where ideas are presented with little dressing in the form of plot and character development, where the scientific references are accur... If you enjoy bleak social commentaries that stir and discomfort, where ideas are presented with little dressing in the form of plot and character development, where the scientific references are accurate and à propos, this is a book for you. (展开)
0 有用 西木野 2024-05-02 22:31:30 上海
神作!没有哪个当代作家像维勒贝克一样直击当代生活且文笔极好。这本里面的人物塑造是精神分析式的,以此扩展到诊断整个西方的变态神经症。不过阅读难度也是吓人,全是理科专有名词,算是长见识了
0 有用 destiny 2013-07-27 05:13:49
小說家就是預言家。
0 有用 栉海 2024-11-06 06:24:41 美国
从他们诞生之前到人类终结,仿佛是在满是阳光的静室下,打开旧数码相机里的照片,看着两人的身影闪烁地坐着火车,在时空记忆尽头的小镇,巨大而空洞的都市,与最终的爱尔兰间无止境的漫游,看着疯狂的,破碎的,干燥的欲望和悲伤成为游离的微尘。这样世界并非由真正的人类构成,更像是一系列复杂而漫长的回声。在构筑这一世界时,文本形式之间的游离与折返发挥了巨大的魅力,仿佛拉开抽屉,用指尖掠过成沓厚重而又轻薄的记忆,时而... 从他们诞生之前到人类终结,仿佛是在满是阳光的静室下,打开旧数码相机里的照片,看着两人的身影闪烁地坐着火车,在时空记忆尽头的小镇,巨大而空洞的都市,与最终的爱尔兰间无止境的漫游,看着疯狂的,破碎的,干燥的欲望和悲伤成为游离的微尘。这样世界并非由真正的人类构成,更像是一系列复杂而漫长的回声。在构筑这一世界时,文本形式之间的游离与折返发挥了巨大的魅力,仿佛拉开抽屉,用指尖掠过成沓厚重而又轻薄的记忆,时而深深跌入记忆与场景的隧道,又时刻与每一个人一样清楚终结的必然,一切只是像是一种注定的,干净的,纯粹的悲伤。 非常接近米歇尔,也知道爱与无法去爱,终究也是一种人类的不可避免。 (展开)