by Michel Houellebecq · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433967305
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«Las partículas elementales» is the contemporary novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (328 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows two stepbrothers in their forties: Michel, a biology researcher withdrawn into an ascetic life, and Bruno, a literature teacher trapped between sexual obsession and resentment. Through their stories, Houellebecq portrays with harshness and sarcasm loneliness, desire, and the search for happiness in contemporary society.
Original title: Les particules élémentaires; translation by Encarna Castejón. Work originally published in 1998. This edition is volume 299 of Anagrama's Compactos collection.
Aimed at a general adult audience, especially readers of contemporary European fiction.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel Whatever in 1994 and his second, Atomised, in 1998, to international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
