《基本粒子》人类，只是宇宙粒子的随机排列组合。
布吕诺和米歇尔是对同母异父的兄弟，性格截然不同，又互为映照。布吕诺浪漫，成了语文老师；米歇尔理性，成了生物学家。布吕诺是个生活实践家，在吃喝玩乐、更换女友的过程中寻求生命的意义；米歇尔拒绝了青梅竹马的示爱，比起稍纵即逝的欲望，他更愿意投身神圣的科学研究。在人生路的某个节点，他们都曾无限接近幸福又失之交臂。
布吕诺和米歇尔互相纠缠的命运，构成了人类生存图景的DNA双螺旋结构。而在不远的将来，得益于米歇尔的研究成果，人类通过无性繁殖实现了永生，摆脱了生而为人的七情六欲……
作者简介
米歇尔•维勒贝克，法国小说家、诗人、电影导演。凭借《基本粒子》崭露头角，销量在法国超过100万册，而《地图与疆域》使他斩获了法国文学最高奖项——龚古尔奖。如今维勒贝克已是世界最重要的作家之一，被誉为继加缪之后最重要的法国作家，也是最诚实质问生存意义的思想家。被翻译成数十种语言于全球发行。评论家辛齐亚娜•拉维尼在2021年说：“如果瑞典学院不怕激起美学和伦理、道德和政治上的争议，那么现在就该把诺贝尔奖授予维勒贝克，因为他的作品独一无二地反映了时代精神。”
Elementary Particles. Man is just a random arrangement of cosmic particles.
Bruneau and Michel are half brothers, very different characters, but also mirror each other. Bruno romantic, became a language teacher; Michelle was rational and became a biologist. Bruneau is a life practitioner who seeks the meaning of life in the process of eating, drinking, having fun and changing his girlfriend. Michel rejected the advances of his childhood sweetheart, preferring to devote himself to the sacred study of science over fleeting desires. At some point in their lives, they had all come so close to happiness and missed it.
The intertwined fates of Bruneau and Michel form the DNA double helix of the picture of human existence. And in the near future, thanks to Michel's research results, human beings achieve immortality through asexual reproduction, and get rid of the seven feelings and six desires of human beings...
About the author
Michel Houellebecq is a French novelist, poet, and film director. He came to prominence with "Elementary Particles," which sold more than a million copies in France, and "Maps and Territories," which won him the Goncourt prize, the highest prize in French literature. Today Houellebecq is one of the world's most important writers, hailed as the most important French writer after Camus, and the most honest thinker who questions the meaning of existence. It has been translated into dozens of languages and distributed worldwide. Critic Cynziana Lavigne said in 2021: "If the Swedish Academy were not afraid to stir up aesthetic and ethical, moral and political controversies, it would award the Nobel Prize now to Houellebecq, whose work uniquely reflects the spirit of The Times."
