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“Serotonin” is a story of loneliness, longing and suffering, while accusing modern moral values. As in Velbeck’s previous works, which feature the author’s characteristic mental decline and the social divides in society caused by the inevitable influence of Western culture, the protagonist of this novel is a middle-aged man who is unhappy with life.
Deeply depressed by defeat in both the professional and love fields, the obsolete hedonist and agricultural expert Floran Claude Labrust concludes that he is “dying of sadness.” The relationship with her current girlfriend, who has begun to despise her, is deadlocked, her career is the same, and everyday life is hard to imagine without a regular dose of medication. Smoked by loneliness, consumerism, hedonism and the city, Labrust decides to return to Normandy, where he once advertised local cheeses, fell in love and even seemed happy. But the farmers there, like him, long for the impossible – the return of simpler and more humane or “golden” times and are ready to fight for it literally.
Michel Houellebecq (1958) is one of the most important and scandalous French writers. Latvian readers are already familiar with five works by this author: five novels have been translated by Dena Dimiņš, including the Elementārhdinas and Gonkura Prize-winning work “Map and Territory”,
“Serotonin” is a sarcastic, frightening, hilarious, obscene, offensive and politically correct novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization and humanity in general. “Velbeks has brilliantly established himself as one of today’s most intriguing writers. Unmatched in its nihilism, constantly amusing and always enjoyable, ”says Evening Standard.
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