Description
A man on the edge of collapse—Florent-Claude Labrouste, a depressed agricultural scientist in a Paris apartment block—clings to a final, fragile hope for relief as his personal life and career unravel. As he moves between the sterile rhythms of modern work and the stubborn realities of rural life, the story widens to follow his friend Aymeric, a farmer confronting a changing world, marital fracture, and the slow erosion of meaning. Blending intimate psychological observation with a broader social lens, the novel explores depression, desire, and the search for comfort in a society that promises more than it delivers. With Houellebecq’s famously lucid, unsparing style, the book turns everyday routines into a meditation on alienation, faith in progress, and the uneasy chemistry of human feeling.
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paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2019
231 pages
ISBN: 9781473570535
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First Published
2019
Language
fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq.