Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles) is an American novelist who debuted with Less Than Zero (1985) and is best known for American Psycho (1991). His work often explores alienation, consumer culture and the emptiness of privileged youth.

Debut novel Less Than Zero (1985); notable books include The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho (1991), Lunar Park (2005) and Imperial Bedrooms (2011). Frequently associated with minimalist and transgressive fiction; recurring themes in reviews include image over being, nihilism, and critiques of consumerist/affluent subcultures.

DeBaser reviews portray Bret Easton Ellis as a minimalist, transgressive novelist focusing on alienation, consumerism and the dark side of affluent youth. Reviews praise debut work and American Psycho while responses to later books are more mixed. Recurring themes: empty lives, image over being, and unsettling violence.

For:Readers of contemporary American fiction, students of transgressive/minimalist literature, and critics interested in representations of 1980s/90s consumer culture.

 

Ellis was in his twenties when he wrote this novel.

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the novel essentially speaks of nothing, it is empty, and this is precisely what makes it brilliant and terrifying.

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Lunar Park is the book of ghosts, the book of obsessions that return to disturb the author’s mind who makes an enormous leap: the villains are not in human form, the villains are not bourgeois, the villains do not win, and above all, precisely because of this twist, the side of Ellis that permeates the pages is that of the victim.

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