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After his father's death, Michel, a jaded, middle-aged civil servant, decides to travel to Thailand in search of exotic pleasures: “As soon as they have a few days off, the inhabitants of Western Europe rush to the other side of the world, flying halfway across the globe; they behave literally like escaped prisoners. I don't…

Houellebecq's rare first book, inscribed

Houellebecq in image and color

First edition, first printing — inscribed to Tina

The deluxe issue, bound by Louise Bescond

Sérotonine is a treatise on decline, addressing the decline of the West: of the European Union, of France, of God. The hero — or anti-hero —, Florent-Claude Labrouste, is a 46-year-old agricultural engineer employed by the Ministry of Agriculture, in a relationship with a 26-year-old Japanese woman, who is dying “of sorrow” and owes his…

Binding by Louise Bescond

Anéantir: the threat Houellebecq sees in our society

A social and moral satire of the contemporary world as much as a philosophical-religious tale, La Possibilité d'une île explores cloning in a future where humanity has been decimated. Houellebecq and his two clones (or clowns), Daniel1 and Daniel2, offer a self-portrait of the artist as an old man, a hyperrealist scout convinced that everything…