Les Particules élémentaires (play)
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Les Particules élémentaires (lit. 'The Elementary Particles') is a play by the French writer Julien Gosselin, adapted from the novel Atomised by Michel Houellebecq.[1]
Michel and Bruno are half brothers born in 1956 and 1958. Michel is a molecular biologist incapable of desire and love. Bruno is a school teacher obsessed with sex. As they are followed through the 1980s and 1990s, the libertine ideas of the 1960s and 1970s that formed them lead them to self-loathing, narcissism and boredom.[2][3] The runtime is around 3 hours and 50 minutes.[1]