American Psycho

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norman mailer (who tried, and failed, to create an american psycho type book with his an american dream) complains that easton ellis offers no alternative to the 'flat, insipid' life of patrick bateman. i do not believe that 'in dark times the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements. The drawing of Patrick Bateman in this cover takes away his eyes, which shows his lack of conscience. A quarter century after its release, American Psycho remains a scandal, controversy, pop-culture phenomenon, and a flashpoint for heated argument arguments about censorship, free expression, misogyny, violence and pornography more than a book people might actually read, and even more improbably, enjoy.

It was here that we first heard of "the unreliable narrator", a personage now familiar from any number of book reviews or broadcast literary discussions.Ellis was asked in an interview in 2002 whether he was gay, and he explained that he did not identify as gay or straight, but enjoyed playing with his persona, identifying variously as gay, straight and bisexual. As described by the critic Jennifer Krause in her intertextual analysis of the novel, which relies on the work of postmodern theorist Fredric Jameson, Jameson "blames the schizophrenic's ills on the incoherence of postmodern media and capitalistic consumption". American Psycho (1991) is a controversial cult novel that uses graphic violence to satirize modern capitalism and consumer culture. Chapter Pornography and Violence: The Dialectics of Transgression in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho provides an in-depth analysis of the novel.

As a promotion for the film, one could register to receive e-mails "from" Patrick Bateman, supposedly to his therapist.Sean Bateman – younger brother of Patrick Bateman and also the lead character of The Rules of Attraction. When Bateman tells a model he’s interested in “murders and executions,” she hears “mergers and acquisitions. Part of this is accomplished by making Bateman the most unreliable of unreliable narrators, a madman who regularly describes things that could only exist in the fevered imagination of a confessed lunatic. Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho as a Palimpsest of the Theories of Girard, Gans and de Andrade".