Bret Easton Ellis Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Bret Easton Ellis's new novel explores the end of innocence and the challenging transition from adolescence to adulthood in a vividly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981, where a serial killer targets teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Bret, a senior at Buckley prep school, becomes captivated by the enigmatic new student, Robert Mallory, who harbors a secret while integrating into Bret's close-knit group. As Bret's obsession with Mallory deepens, he becomes increasingly fixated on the Trawler, a serial killer whose threats and acts of violence seem to encroach upon their lives. The eerie coincidences blur the line between reality and Bret's imagination, as he grapples with the dangers surrounding him. Distrustful of his friends and his own perceptions, Bret descends into paranoia and isolation, with the looming connection between the Trawler and Mallory driving the narrative toward a tense climax. Set against the nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., this novel masterfully intertwines fact and fiction, delving into the emotional complexities of Bret's life at seventeen, encompassing themes of sex, jealousy, obsession, and rage. Gripping and darkly humorous, it showcases Ellis's distinctive storytelling prowess.

Ellis offers a first work of nonfiction meditating on the social-media age. The result is both a defense of freedom of speech and a critique of the likeability factor that can impede it.

Patrick Bateman è giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a Wall Street e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali più alla moda, le palestre più esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliore cocaina della città, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro ed eleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita è ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietanti e quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in un torturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, Less Than Zero continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe.Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour.

Clay, l’anti-héros du premier best-seller de Ellis, Moins que zéro, revient à Los Angeles. Il a vingt ans de plus, il est un peu plus vieux, un peu plus seul et désoeuvré. Il retrouve ceux qu’il a connus dans sa jeunesse, Blair, Trent, Julian, Rip... les représentants d’une génération dorée et perdue, abandonnés à la vacuité, la solitude et la vanité qui les détruisent. Producteur associé à l’adaptation cinématographique de son dernier scénario, Clay participe au casting du film, joue de son pouvoir, séduit Rain, une jeune actrice sublime et sans talent, lui fait de fausses promesses. Il est prêt à tout pour la posséder. Mais qui manipule qui ? Clay découvre vite qu’il est constamment observé et suivi...Jalousie, trahisons, meurtres, manipulations... ici, dans la Cité des Anges, chacun se heurte aux mêmes jeux d’emprise et aux mêmes démons, s’enivre de sexe, d’images, de drogues, de fêtes irréelles... et se révèle toujours plus amer et désespéré. Le vide et la fureur aspirent les personnages, et leur font perdre tout sens des limites. On est saisi par la virtuosité du style sobre et acéré, les chapitres courts donnent à la narration un rythme percutant. L’atmosphère est oppressante, la noirceur non dépourvue d’humour. L’angoisse et la tension croissantes annoncent une lente descente aux enfers. Le portrait de notre époque est aussi violent que subversif.

Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.

This book offers a narrative that intertwines genders, generations, and identities, featuring characters in LA who share a profound connection through their collective experience of soul-crushing suffering.

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. His attempts to save his new world from his own demons makes Lunar Park Ellis’s most suspenseful novel. In this chilling tale reality, memoir, and fantasy combine to create not only a fascinating version of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness.

L'auteur de <i>Moins que zéro</i> décrit dans son deuxième livre une nouvelle descente aux enfers qui se situe à l'université. Ses héros, des étudiants issus d'une bourgeoisie typée, trempent, d'une dérive à l'autre, dans les illusions du sexe et de la drogue, sur un fond de rock... Bret Easton Ellis peint une génération en négatif, en montrant les impasses des désirs, des urgences existentielles et des manques. Tout cela au moyen d'une écriture sobre, rapide et brute. La phraséologie de cette décennie contient à elle seule toute une micro-histoire. Une langue.