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Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, Shaun Whiteside is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Serotonin about?

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 p

Who reads Serotonin?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Michel Houellebecq, Shaun Whiteside
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781473570535
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
4 / 5 (1,152 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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