The Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebeck
Pronounced “wellbeck” and he’d probably tell you so. Critics raved that it was cutting edge and exposed us to hard truths about the human condition. I wonder what’s so cutting edge about nihlism. Funny and truely cruel parts at times, but gets weighed down by the author clearly guiding the narrative’s metaphysics with a iron clasp.
Finished early morning October 15, 2006.
I would like to see a continuation of the topic
Finished reading it just now and the only thing I can’t stop thinking about is a rock. Life is a rock. Bruno, Michel, Christiane and Annabelle are rocks. Their inerself, that’s the problem, like our generation’s “inside” too, is sectioned, indecisive, corrupted and rebelious to exageration. This is a fasade for not being able to express true, sensitive, emotions.
Maybe I’m fooling myself…