Serotonin

In Michel Houellebecq's new novel Serotonin, the 46-year-old protagonist takes stock of his life and decides to say goodbye – a decision that even the revolutionary new antidepressant Captorix cannot change, as it primarily costs him his libido. He dissolves everything: his relationships, his job, his apartment. When did this present begin? In the memories of the women in his life and in his encounter with an old college friend, who is struggling to survive as a farmer in a globalized France, he realizes when and where he has betrayed himself and others. Never before has Michel Houellebecq written so seriously and emotionally about love. At the same time, in Serotonin, he depicts the struggle and impending downfall of a traditional industry in our era of global markets and faceless EU bureaucracy.