Elementarteilchen by Michel Houellebecq

Published 2006 · 384 pages · 105,600 words · about 6 hours at an average pace

How hard is Elementarteilchen to read?

Elementarteilchen scores 38 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Where the story of Elementarteilchen takes place

  • France, 1960s–1990s (1960 to 1998), the main setting

About the author

Michel Houellebecq