Destined to become a cult book... a genuine page-turner - Observer
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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, thou...
Destined to become a cult book... a genuine page-turner - Observer
Description of book
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 in its dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, in 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.
Historically, such human beings have existed. Human beings who have worked -- worked hard -- all their lives with no motive other than love and devotion, who have literally given their lives for others, out of love and devotion; human beings who have no sense of having made any sacrifice, who cannot imagine any way of life other than giving their lives for others, out of love and devotion. In general, such human beings are generally women. (查看原文)
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0 有用 周盆 2009-03-14 18:18:28
作者写到最后的时候一定已经精疲力竭并且非常抑郁。读书的我，也有一点一点下沉的意思。书里的Bruno，在现实生活中我自然是认识一些的。纵欲、不快乐的中产阶级白人男性。学社会学的时候，我们把这样的人称作“有话语权的大多数”。Houellebecq的每一部小说都是关于他们——漫无目的的生活、猥琐、且总是以悲剧收尾的命运。 看完了觉得空落落的，不知道接下来应该做什么