Fragile Man.

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      The persona through which Houellebecq's novel refracts and magnifies this question of man and his wounded animal nature is that of Florent-Claude Labrouste, a 46-year-old consultant for the French Agriculture Ministry. Every novel features protagonists similar to Florent: bourgeois French men caught up in an inner turmoil charged by loneliness, sexual dilemma, and the state of the globalized world. Aymeric may be contemplating the void with a hollow gaze, but there is no equivalent to Cthulhu in this universe, and Houellebecq's mode is realism rather than fantasy. [Extracted from the article]
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