Summary
Michel Houellebecq: Sertonoin
Florent-Claude Labrouste, an agronomic engineer and protagonist who hates his name, is nostalgic for extinguished passions, sexual and political, potentially dangerous and criminal. A consumer of serotonin in the magic pill "Captorix" and a depressed person who is physically and morally destroyed by the disease and leads directly to suicide, he would like to gradually return to his lost happiness. In the midst of love's crucifixion, he discovers the tragic situation of the globalized agricultural world (which many see as a foreboding of the coming "yellow vests") and experiences firsthand the sad breakdown of human relationships that only love and friendship can redeem.
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