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Elementary Particles

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Novel by Michel Houellebecq featuring a protagonist named Djerzinski who is paralyzed by inability to act on romantic feelings

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"Over the past few months /r/RSBookClub has read Hrabel's *Too Loud a Solitude*, Didion's *Slouching Towards Bethlehem*, Houellebecq's *Elementary Particles*, Bulgakov's *The Master & Margarita*, and Tolstoy's *The Death of Ivan Ilyich*."
/r/RSBookClub Update · u/rarely_beagle · ↑86 · 2021-09-27
"Yesterday I found myself in a situation not unlike one described in Elementary Particles by Houllebecq where Djerzinski is in love with this girl but is paralyzed by some force that prohibits him from acting on it."
How to become a man of action? · u/12goblue · ↑38 · 2023-05-07
"Houellebecq's *Elementary Particles*"
/r/RSBookClub Update · u/rarely_beagle · ↑86 · 2021-09-27
"Yesterday I found myself in a situation not unlike one described in Elementary Particles by Houllebecq where Djerzinski is in love with this girl but is paralyzed by some force that prohibits him from acting on it."
How to become a man of action? · u/12goblue · ↑38 · 2023-05-07
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