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One snowy day, a woman named Vianne Rocher (Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) arrive in the staid if picturesque French village of Lansquenet. Their intent is to open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer...
Chaudhuri focuses much of his novel on Jayojit's observations of the seemingly mundane details of life in Calcutta. Jayojit dutifully recounts the shifts in the dollar-rupee ratio and vividly describes the different saris worn by all the women he sees. He is as entranced by the noise of...
Jayojit's statement about love is jarring, and highlights a central problem in the novel. Chaudhuri never develops Jayojit fully enough for his philosophy to ring true to his character. In fact, it is hard to understand Jayojit's inner life at all. Chaudhuri shows us that a part of...
Chaudhuri's depiction of Jayojit's marriage is equally sparse. The short scenes of Jayojit's memories of his wife are beautifully written, but are not effective in conveying the reasons for Jayojit's disenchanted feelings about romance, nor in validating his disillusionment with his life in America. Jayojit is...
In this summary form, The Elementary Particles does seem to promise a fairly interesting read. But it is the actual prose of the novel which contributes to its generally unbearable nature. Houellebecq simply refuses to let his characters be real human beings. They can exist only as generational archetypes or...