À la recherche de l’amour perdu : Sérotonine de Michel Houellebecq
Serotonin (2019) undoubtedly represents Michel Houellebecq’s most “Proustian” novel. His narrator, a forty-six-year-old agricultural engineer, who became desperately impotent by a regular absorption of “new-generation anti-depressants”, scrutinizes his “phallocentric memory” to revisit all his misse...
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta
2020-10-01
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| description | Serotonin (2019) undoubtedly represents Michel Houellebecq’s most “Proustian” novel. His narrator, a forty-six-year-old agricultural engineer, who became desperately impotent by a regular absorption of “new-generation anti-depressants”, scrutinizes his “phallocentric memory” to revisit all his missed appointments with the great Romantic Love that could have saved him. Our analysis proves that Serotonin is not just a “prefiguration of the Yellow vests movement”, an “illustration of European agricultural crisis” or a “conservative flirt with Christianism” (which commentators are accustomed to identify in Houellebecq’s work) but also a somewhat astonishing reflection on the functioning of memory and the mechanisms of love. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-05247997d326479c90dcaa5bc5a345dd2022-12-21T21:06:00ZcesUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická FakultaSvět Literatury0862-84402336-67292020-10-013021522410.14712/23366729.2020.3.19À la recherche de l’amour perdu : Sérotonine de Michel HouellebecqEva Voldřichová Beránková 0Université CharlesSerotonin (2019) undoubtedly represents Michel Houellebecq’s most “Proustian” novel. His narrator, a forty-six-year-old agricultural engineer, who became desperately impotent by a regular absorption of “new-generation anti-depressants”, scrutinizes his “phallocentric memory” to revisit all his missed appointments with the great Romantic Love that could have saved him. Our analysis proves that Serotonin is not just a “prefiguration of the Yellow vests movement”, an “illustration of European agricultural crisis” or a “conservative flirt with Christianism” (which commentators are accustomed to identify in Houellebecq’s work) but also a somewhat astonishing reflection on the functioning of memory and the mechanisms of love.https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/10/Eva_Voldrichova_Berankova_215-224.pdfmarcel proustmichel houellebecqserotoninmemorylove |
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