'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-C laude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplates lost loves and past happiness as he struggles to embed himself in a world that no longer holds any joy for him. His only relief comes in the form of a pill ? white, oval, small. C aptorix is a new brand of anti-depressant, recently released for public consumption, which works by altering the brain?s release of serotonin. With social unrest intensifying around him, and his own depression deepening,...
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2024-04-17
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Sexfixerat och mansgrisigt men det anade jag p frhand. Samtidigt full av humor i typisk fransk absurd stil och ett och annat tnkvrt filosoferande om mnskligheten. Osympatisk och deppig huvudperson men vlskriven bok. Svrbedmd.
2020-01-26
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Deprimerad, ensam, krnkt vit man p vg mot botten. Knner mig vldigt dubbel. En bra skildring av polariseringen eller bara vulgrt? Kanske bda...
