The Beginning Controversy
HOUELLEBECQ, Michel; Frank WYNNE (trans). Atomised. London: William Heinemann.[2000]
8vo. Publisher's green paper covers with black lettering; pp. [iv], 379; vertical creasing to spine and rubbing to head and foot, light foxing to top edge, very good.
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Atomised, otherwise known as Les Particules Elementaires, concerns itself with the sad lives of two half-brothers living lonely and monotonous existences devoid of love, and wrestling with the concept that humanity is merely a collection of particles in the end.
Atomised became an immediate bestseller and propelled the contentious author into the French literary limelight.
Houellebecq was subsequently awarded the Prix Novembre after much controversy surrounding the pseudo pornographic sexual descriptions in the novel.
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