Literature’s enfant terrible awarded Légion d’honneur as ‘scathing and visionary’ Serotonin released, which foresees gilets jaunes protests
He is idolised as France’s biggest literary export, a controversial poet-provocateur who holds up a mirror to the grim truths of contemporary France.
So when Michel Houellebecq’s long-awaited new novel, Serotonin, hit French bookstores on Friday morning with a massive print run of 320,000 copies, simultaneous translations in several countries and the author for the first time staying silent and refusing any interviews or media promotion, it was proclaimed a national event.
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