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Atomised
''Atomised'', also known as ''The Elementary Particles'' (french: Les Particules élémentaires), is a novel by the French author Michel Houellebecq, published in France in 1998. It tells the story of two half-brothers, Michel and Bruno, and their mental struggles against their situations in modern society. It was translated into English by Frank Wynne as ''Atomised'' in the UK and as ''The Elementary Particles'' in the US. It won the International Dublin Literary Award for writer and translator. Plot Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion, the narrative focuses almost exclusively on the bleak and unrewarding day-to-day lives of the protagonists, two half-brothers who barely know each other. They seem devoid of love, and in their loveless or soon-to-be loveless journeys, Bruno becomes a saddened loner, wrecked by his upbringing and failure to individuate, while Michel's pioneering work in cloning removes love from the process of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1956 or 1958) is a French author, known for his novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, '' Whatever'', in 1994. His next novel, ''Atomised'', published in 1998, brought him international fame as well as controversy. ''Platform'' followed in 2001. He has published several books of poetry, including '' The Art of Struggle'' in 1996. An offhand remark about Islam during a publicity tour for his 2001 novel ''Platform'' led to Houellebecq being taken to court for inciting racial hatred (he was eventually cleared of all charges). He subsequently moved to Ireland for several years, before moving back to France, where he currently resides. He was described in 2015 as "France’s biggest literary export and, some say, greatest living writer." In a 2017 DW article he is dubbed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atomised
''Atomised'', also known as ''The Elementary Particles'' (french: Les Particules élémentaires), is a novel by the French author Michel Houellebecq, published in France in 1998. It tells the story of two half-brothers, Michel and Bruno, and their mental struggles against their situations in modern society. It was translated into English by Frank Wynne as ''Atomised'' in the UK and as ''The Elementary Particles'' in the US. It won the International Dublin Literary Award for writer and translator. Plot Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion, the narrative focuses almost exclusively on the bleak and unrewarding day-to-day lives of the protagonists, two half-brothers who barely know each other. They seem devoid of love, and in their loveless or soon-to-be loveless journeys, Bruno becomes a saddened loner, wrecked by his upbringing and failure to individuate, while Michel's pioneering work in cloning removes love from the process of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Gedeck
Martina Gedeck (; born 14 September 1961) is a German actress. She came to broader, international attention due to her roles in films such as '' Mostly Martha'' (2001), ''The Lives of Others'' (2006), and ''The Baader Meinhof Complex'' (2008). She has won numerous awards, including the Deutscher Filmpreis in 1997 for Supporting Actress in '' Life is All You Get'', and in 2002 for Actress in '' Mostly Martha''. Biography Gedeck was born 14 September 1961 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany, and grew up in Bavaria, the oldest of three girls. In 1971, her family moved to Berlin, where the eleven-year-old debuted as an actress in children's television shows. There seems to be some uncertainty regarding her year of birth 1961. After graduating school in 1981, she enrolled at the Free University of Berlin, majoring in German Literature and History. From 1982 to 1986, Martina attended acting classes at the Berlin University of the Arts. During that time, she made her stage debut at the The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franka Potente
Franka Potente (; born 22 July 1974) is a German actress. She first appeared in the comedy film ''After Five in the Forest Primeval'' (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she portrayed the titular role in the acclaimed action thriller ''Run Lola Run'', for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best Actress. She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film '' Opernball'' (also 1998). After half a decade of well-received roles in German productions, Potente made the transition into Hollywood with her role in the biographical crime film ''Blow'' (2001), and achieved wider recognition for her appearances in '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002) and ''The Bourne Supremacy'' (2004). She portrayed communist revolutionary Tamara Bunke in '' Che'' (2008), and psychologist Anita Gregory in ''The Conjuring 2'' (2016). Her other notable films include ''Anato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Ulmen
Christian Ulmen (born 22 September 1975) is a German entertainer, actor, voice actor and audiobook narrator. Career Ulmen was born in Neuwied. He started his television career in 1996 as a video jockey on MTV Europe. He is known for his creative, and sometimes provocative, humour, which he displayed in TV shows such as ''Unter Ulmen'' or '' Mein neuer Freund'', the German adaptation of Channel 4's '' My New Best Friend'', and the award-winning TV series '' Dr. Psycho – Die Bösen, die Bullen, meine Frau und ich''. Ulmen has also appeared in leading roles in successful cinema productions including ''Berlin Blues'' (2003), the screenplay ''Atomised'' (2006), based on Michel Houellebecq's novel of the same title, and ''Men in the City'' directed by Simon Verhoeven and released in October 2009. Since 2013, Ulmen and Nora Tschirner play a team of investigators in the Weimar-based episodes of the ''Tatort'' series. Personal life Ulmen is agnostic. Ulmen met his future wife Huberta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Johann Bleibtreu (; was born in Munich, Germany on August 13, 1971. He has worked over the years as a film actor, voice actor, and film director. Bleibtreu has been a successful actor in many movies such as '' Run Lola Run, Das Experiment, The Baader Meinhof Complex'', and ''Elementary Particles''. His role in ''Knockin' on Heaven's Door'' was the one that set off his career back in 1997. Life Moritz Bleibtreu was born in 1971 and was raised in the St. Georg district of Hamburg. Moritz Bleibtreu's parents, Monica Bleibtreu, (1944-2009) and, Hans Brenner, (1938 - 1998) were both actors. Renato Attilio Bleibtreu is Moritz's grandfather and is a well-known writer. Many of his ancestors were actors also, such as his great-grandmother Maximiliane Bleibtreu, her sister Hedwig Bleibtreu and their parents Amalie and Sigmund Bleibtreu. Actress Cilli Drexel is the half-sister of Moritz Bleibtreu. The Bleibtreustrasse, a street in Berlin, was originally named after Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer. Born in County Sligo in the west of Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at comic magazine ''Deadline''. He worked for a time at AOL before becoming a literary translator. He has translated many authors including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He has twice jointly won the International Dublin Literary Award: with Houellebecq for ''Atomised'' (his translation of ''Les Particules élémentaires''); and with Alice Zeniter for ''The Art of Losing'' (his translation of ''L'Art de Perdre''). His translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's ''Windows on the World'', a novel set in the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks, won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Notably, he is a two-time winner of both the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for translation from the Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Décembre
The ''Prix Décembre'', originally known as the ''Prix Novembre'', is one of France's premier literary awards. It was founded under the name ''Prix Novembre'' in 1989 by Philippe Dennery (Michel Dennery, according to other sources). In 1998, the founder resigned after he disapproved awarding of the prize to Michel Houellebecq's novel ''Atomised''. The prize then got a new patron – Pierre Bergé – and a new name: ''Prix Decembre''. Winners: * ''Prix Novembre'': **1989 – Guy Dupré, ''Les Manoeuvres d'automne'' **1990 – François Maspero, ''Les Passagers du Roissy-Express'' **1991 – Raphaël Confiant, ''Eau de café'' **1992 – Henri Thomas, ''La Chasse au trésor'' and Roger Grenier, ''Regardez la neige qui tombe'' **1993 – René de Obaldia. ''Exobiographie'' **1994 – Jean Hatzfeld, ''L'Air de guerre'' and Éric Holder, ''La Belle Jardinière'' **1995 – Jean Échenoz, ''Les Grandes Blondes'' **1996 – Régis Debray, ''Loués soient nos seigneurs: une éducation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elementary Particles (2021 Film)
''The Elementary Particles'' (french: Les Particules élémentaires) is a 2021 French television drama film directed by Antoine Garceau for France 2. It is based on the novel ''Atomised'' by Michel Houellebecq and has a screenplay by Gilles Taurand. It stars Guillaume Gouix and Jean-Charles Clichet Jean-Charles and Jean-Carles is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Jean Charles, Chevalier Folard (1669–1752), French soldier and military author * Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817–1891), French engineer ... and tells the story of two half brothers, where the first half of the film is about their adolescence and the second is about them as adults. It premiered on 17 September 2021 at the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma, where it was shown out of competition as a two-part television film. It was changed into one film of 1 hour and 58 minutes before it was shown on France 2 on 31 January 2022. It had 2 million viewers, which was 10% of the viewers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Dublin Literary Award
The International Dublin Literary Award ( ga, Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. It promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland. At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. If the winning book is a translation (as it has been nine times), the prize is divided between the writer and the translator, with the writer receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The first award was made in 1996 to David Malouf for his English-language novel ''Remembering Babylon''. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide – over 400 library systems in 177 countries worldwide are invited to nominate books each year – from which the shortlist and the eventual winner are selected by an international panel of judges (which changes eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website since 19 December 1995, and is often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-French-speaking countries. It is considered one of the French newspapers of record, along with '' Libération'', and ''Le Figaro''. It should not be confused with the monthly publication '' Le Monde diplomatique'', of which ''Le Monde'' has 51% ownership, but which is editorially independent. A Reuters Institute poll in 2021 in France found that "''Le Monde'' is the most trusted national newspaper". ''Le Monde'' was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Charles Clichet
Jean-Charles and Jean-Carles is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Jean Charles, Chevalier Folard (1669–1752), French soldier and military author * Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817–1891), French engineer * Jean-Charles Bédard (1766–1825), Quebec-born priest and Sulpician * Jean-Charles Brisard, international expert and consultant on international terrorism * Jean-Charles Cantin (1918–2005), Canadian politician * Jean-Charles Chapais (1811–1885), Canadian Conservative politician * Jean-Charles Chebat (born 1945), Canadian marketing researcher * Jean-Charles Chenu (1808–1879), French physician and naturalist * Jean-Charles Cirilli (born 1982), French professional football player * Jean-Charles Cornay (1809–1837), French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in Vietnam * Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), French mathematician, physicist and political scientist * Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (born 1949), fashion designer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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