Serotonin Michel Houellebecq Shaun Whiteside by Michel Houellebecq, Shaun Whiteside 9780374261023, 0374261024, B07PWRXRFK instant download after payment.

Michel Houellebecq’s devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, which is also a powerful indictment of modern life is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and a politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Translated by Shaun Whiteside.

Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is dying of sadness. His young girlfriend hates him and his career as an engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture is pretty much over. Suffocating in the rampant loneliness, consumerism, hedonism, and sprawl of the city, Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses and where he was once in love, and even — it now seems — happy. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Recently released for public consumption, Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant that works by altering the brain’s release of serotonin.

"Like all of Houellebecq’s work, Serotonin is, at times, hilarious, sexually graphic, and shockingly irreverent. But it is also a novel of moral seriousness, daring us to increase our compassion in proportion to the seeming loathsomeness of those to whom it is owed."  -  Louis Betty, The Los Angeles Review Of Books

Michel Houellebecq is a poet, essayist and novelist. He was awarded the Legion d’Honneur in 2019.