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David Jack

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Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Shaun Whiteside

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December 2019, no. 417
David Jack reviews 'Serotonin' by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Shaun Whiteside

Serotonin is Michel Houellebecq’s eighth novel and appears four years after the scandalous and critically successful Submission (2015), a dystopian novel that depicts France under sharia law. In Serotonin, we are again presented with the standard Houellebecquian narrator: white, middle-aged, and middle class, seemingly in the throes of some mid-life crisis of a predominantly – but not exclusively – sexual nature.

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