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1) Submission
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English
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In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the...
3) Serotonin
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English
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"Michel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." He hates his young girlfriend, and the feeling is almost certainly mutual; his career is pretty...
4) Soumission
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Français
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"Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution, se développe comme un mauvais rêve. Le talent de l'auteur, sa force...
6) Serotonina
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Polish
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Serotonina to historia czterdziestosześcioletniego Florenta-Claude'a Labrouste'a, który pewnego dnia odkrywa, że partnerka zdradzała go z młodymi mężczyznami podczas filmowanych orgii. Opuszcza ją i całymi dniami snuje się po barach, wygłaszając tyrady na temat związków miłosnych. Bohaterowi udaje się funkcjonować jedynie dzięki regularnemu zażywaniu tabletki Captorix, która powoduje wydzielanie serotoniny, zwanej hormonem szczęścia....
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