3.5
The Elementary Particles
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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.
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
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.
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
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3.5
“Sentimientos encontrados. Lo empecé porque leí en algún sitio que era del estilo de Irvine Welsh pero la verdad es que no me lo ha parecido para nada. Welsh narra situaciones muy crudas desde la perspectiva de los personajes, personajes que a veces tienen una vida muy precaria y a menudo una moral cuestionable, pero cuando lo lees queda más que claro que los pensamientos pertenecen a los personajes. Esto además se ve intensificado por la gran diversidad de personajes con valores e ideas tan opuestas.
Sin embargo Michel Houellebecq en este libro intenta narrar a dos personajes cuya ideología se basa supuestamente en valores contrarios frente a la sexualidad, pero acaba dejando ver en ambos personajes sus propias degeneraciones e ideas machistas.
No narra situaciones crudas como las que se ven en Trainspotting, narra perversiones sexuales muy fuertes en las que se destilan sus propias fantasías, intentando esconderlas en los personajes de su libro. Y desde luego no lo hace desde el humor. A pesar de que como escritor se le ve súper talentoso y su narrativa es admirable, no he podido evitar que se me revuelvan las tripas al leer semejantes barbaridades que están aquí escritas.”
“the only reason this even got any portion of any stars is because of the epilogue. worst book i’ve ever read, hands down. fuck this fuck ass book, fuck michel houellebecq for conceptualizing and writing it, fuck his editor for editing it, fuck the publisher for publishing it, fuck diego for recommending it, fuck jack for giving it to me. booooooooo!!!!!!!”
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