Bret Easton Ellis

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.

Own it, you've lost everything you claim to hold dear.White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke" cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, White is a clarion call for freedom of speech and artistic freedom. "The central tension in Ellis's art—or his life, for that matter—is that while [his] aesthetic is the cool reserve of his native California, detachment over ideology, he can't stop generating heat.... He's hard-wired to break furniture."—Karen Heller, The Washington Post "Sweating with rage . . . humming with paranoia."—Anna Leszkiewicz, The Guardian "Snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow's nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage . . . a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed. It's all here. Rants about Trump derangement syndrome; MSNBC; #MeToo; safe spaces."—Bari Weiss, The New York Times Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!

Eighteen-year-old college student Clay is back in his home town of Los Angeles for Christmas break. Clay is three things: rich, bored and looking to get high. As he reacquaints himself with a familiarly limitless world of privilege, along with his best friend and his ex, his shocking, stunning and disturbing adventure is filled with non-stop drinking in glamorous nightclubs, drug-fuelled parties and endless sexual encounters.Published in 1985, when Bret Easton Ellis was just twenty-one, Less Than Zero is a fierce coming-of-age story which quickly defined a genre. A cult classic beloved for its dogged portrayal of hedonistic youth and the morally depraved, this extraordinary and instantly famous novel is a landmark in modern fiction: an inventive, precocious and invigorating story of getting what you want when you want it.

From the bestselling author of American Psycho comes this satirical black comedy about the death of romance.Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no plans for the future—or even the present. Three of them—Sean, Paul, and Lauren—become involved in a love triangle of sorts within a sequence of drug runs, "Dressed to Get Screwed" parties, and "End of the World" parties.As Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at the self-consciously bohemian Camden College, treating their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion, he exposes the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city.17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling pre-occupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them--and Bret in particular--with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends--or his own mind--to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero LA, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17-sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.

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. 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.

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice“Compelling and scary. A political thriller bursting with conspiracies, double agents and international terrorism. Glamorama is like a Semtex attack on our superficialities.” —The FaceThe author of American Psycho continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity-obsessed culture.Victor Ward, a twenty-something model in fashion- and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan, is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and in London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately discovers—back on the other, familiar side—that there was no mirror, no escape, no world but this one in which hotels implode and planes fall from the sky.

Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city harbours a group of people trapped between the beauty of their surroundings and their own moral impoverishment. This novel is a chronicle of their voices.

Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned, and disturbed with "Less Than Zero", his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' ("New Yorker"), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Now, twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters: to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his. But now, some years on, they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age. Clay seems to have moved on - he's become a successful screenwriter - but when he returns from New York to Los Angeles, to help cast his new movie, he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is now married to Trent, and their Beverly Hills parties attract excessive levels of fame and fortune, though for all that Trent is a powerful manager, his baser instincts remain: he's still a bisexual philanderer. Then there's Clay's childhood friend, Julian - who's now a recovering addict - and their old dealer, Rip - face-lifted beyond recognition and seemingly even more sinister than he was in his notorious past. Clay, too, struggles with his own demons after a meeting with a gorgeous actress determined to win a role in his movie. And with his life careening out of control, he's forced to come to terms with the deepest recesses of his character - and with his seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal.

In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at 1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.Bret Easton Ellis' two short stories chronicle the lives of a group of Los Angele's residents all of them suffering from nothing less that death of the soul. Ellis has immense gift for dialogue, off-the-wall humour, merciless description and exotic bleakness.In 'Water from the Sun', Cheryl Lane is going under. Her marriage to William has broken down, she has moved in with a young boy half her age who is more interested in other young boys that in her and she keeps not turning up at work, the one area of her life that seems to be in good working order. To keep afloat she drinks, she shops and she takes pills. Would meeting up with William, something she has been avoiding like everything else in her life, give her what she needs anyway?In 'Discovering Japan', Bryan, is on tour. His manager, Roger, has taken him to Tokyo to promote his record and do a few gigs. But to get Roger out of hotel room, off the drink, drugs and women is going to be a tall enough feet itself for Bryan. Written with spare and hypnotic prose, this is a story about a man hell-bent on distruction by a writer deeply concerned with the moral decline of our society.

Letters from L.A. est une correspondance -à sens unique- écrite par une jeune New-Yorkaise découvrant la Californie. A l'enthousiasme initial de la découverte d'un milieu où tout le monde est bronzé, décontracté, et roule en Mercedes ou en Ferrarri, succèdent une phase de dépression et de doute, puis une plongée dans la vie sociale superficielle de Los Angeles, avec tranquillisants, drogue, sexe et crime. Derrière le divertissement branché, se profilent le déséquilibre, le vide et le désespoir d'une société déboussolée, et l'on passe brutalement de la légèreté au drame.Ces monolingues de la série VERSION ORIGINALE vous proposentun texte intégral dans sa langue d'originedes notes linguistiques et culturellesun lexique donnant la traduction du vocabulaire rencontréun enregistrement intégral sur CD du texte original

Patrick Bateman är ung, snygg, välutbildad och framgångsrik. Han rör sig med arrogant självklarhet bland bankpalats och lyxkrogar i 1980-talets New York. Men status och rikedom är inte nog. All världens njutningar finns till hands, men det räcker inte. På nätterna mördar han, stympar och förnedrar.American Psycho är en av det sena 1900-talets mest omdiskuterade romaner, som redan före utgivningen 1991 väckte protester för sina ingående skildringar av sadistiskt våld och kvinnoförnedring. Här presenteras den tillsammans med författarens debutroman Less Than Zero, där rikedomen och likgiltigheten hos de unga gestalterna är minst lika bedövande och där våldet – just därför – redan kan anas.Einar Heckschers klassiska översättning av American Psycho presenteras här i reviderad version, och Less Than Zero i svensk översättning av Sven Lindell. Med ett nyskrivet förord av journalisten och författaren Fredrik Strage.

Salué comme un Attrape-coeurs moderne, le premier livre de Bret Easton Ellis, Moins que zéro , lui a valu, à vingt ans, une consécration immédiate. Il est devenu le roman emblématique des années 1980, déclinant déjà tous les thèmes qui continueraient d'inspirer cette Comédie inhumaine , selon la formule de Cécile Guilbert : le règne des apparences, l'hypocrisie, le nihilisme d'une époque consumériste, l'incommunicabilité entre les êtres. Portrait acide et cru d'une jeunesse désenchantée, Moins que zéro raconte les errances d'un étudiant de la côte Est qui tente de dissiper son mal-être dans une recherche incessante de tous les plaisirs, mais auquel ni le sexe, ni l'alcool, ni l'argent n'apportent le bonheur et la puissance escomptés.Les Lois de l'attraction gravitent autour de trois garçons appartenant à cette même jeunesse dorée, dont l'existence tragique se consume de rage et de désespoir. American Psycho fit scandale aux États-Unis par son tableau implacable d'une société déshumanisée, incarnée par un jeune golden boy de Wall Street obsédé par l'argent et la réussite, par ailleurs serial killer performant. Zombies , évocation satirique d'un monde gangrené par le vice et la superficialité, Glamorama , qui reprend la peinture désabusée de la faune branchée new-yorkaise, Lunar Park , texte plus autobiographique mais où l'on retrouve les paradis artificiels et l'atmosphère violente et sulfureuse des précédents livres, et enfin Suite(s) impériale(s) , prolongement de Moins que zéro qui marque aussi la fin d'un cycle, illustrent le génie romanesque d'un écrivain hors norme, au style précis, glacé et incisif.Son sens de l'observation, de la dérision, de la formule qui bouscule et son humour au vitriol font de Bret Easton Ellis l'un des romanciers les plus importants et les plus originaux de la littérature américaine.Les deux volumes des Oeuvres complètes contiennent :Tome 1 : Moins que zéro , Les Lois de l'attraction , American Psycho , Zombies.Tome 2 : Glamorama , Lunar Park , Suite(s) impériale(s) .

Salué comme un Attrape-coeurs moderne, le premier livre de Bret Easton Ellis, Moins que zéro, lui a valu, à vingt ans, une consécration immédiate. Il est devenu le roman emblématique des années 1980, déclinant déjà tous les thèmes qui continueraient d’inspirer cette Comédie inhumaine, selon la formule de Cécile Guilbert : le règne des apparences, l’hypocrisie, le nihilisme d’une époque consumériste, l’incommunicabilité entre les êtres. Portrait acide et cru d’une jeunesse désenchantée, Moins que zéro raconte les errances d’un étudiant de la côte Est qui tente de dissiper son mal-être dans une recherche incessante de tous les plaisirs, mais auquel ni le sexe, ni l’alcool, ni l’argent n’apportent le bonheur et la puissance escomptés.Les Lois de l’attraction gravitent autour de trois garçons appartenant à cette même jeunesse dorée, dont l’existence tragique se consume de rage et de désespoir. American Psycho fit scandale aux États-Unis par son tableau implacable d’une société déshumanisée, incarnée par un jeune golden boy de Wall Street obsédé par l’argent et la réussite, par ailleurs serial killer performant. Zombies, évocation satirique d’un monde gangrené par le vice et la superficialité, Glamorama, qui reprend la peinture désabusée de la faune branchée new-yorkaise, Lunar Park, texte plus autobiographique mais où l’on retrouve les paradis artificiels et l’atmosphère violente et sulfureuse des précédents livres, et enfin Suite(s) impériale(s), prolongement de Moins que zéro qui marque aussi la fin d’un cycle, illustrent le génie romanesque d’un écrivain hors norme, au style précis, glacé et incisif.Son sens de l’observation, de la dérision, de la formule qui bouscule et son humour au vitriol font de Bret Easton Ellis l’un des romanciers les plus importants et les plus originaux de la littérature américaine.Les deux volumes des Oeuvres complètes contiennent :Tome 1 : Moins que zéro, Les Lois de l’attraction, American Psycho, Zombies.Tome 2 : Glamorama, Lunar Park, Suite(s) impériale(s).

Salué comme un Attrape-coeurs moderne, le premier livre de Bret Easton Ellis, Moins que zéro, lui a valu, à vingt ans, une consécration immédiate. Il est devenu le roman emblématique des années 1980, déclinant déjà tous les thèmes qui continueraient d’inspirer cette Comédie inhumaine, selon la formule de Cécile Guilbert : le règne des apparences, l’hypocrisie, le nihilisme d’une époque consumériste, l’incommunicabilité entre les êtres. Portrait acide et cru d’une jeunesse désenchantée, Moins que zéro raconte les errances d’un étudiant de la côte Est qui tente de dissiper son mal-être dans une recherche incessante de tous les plaisirs, mais auquel ni le sexe, ni l’alcool, ni l’argent n’apportent le bonheur et la puissance escomptés.Les Lois de l’attraction gravitent autour de trois garçons appartenant à cette même jeunesse dorée, dont l’existence tragique se consume de rage et de désespoir. American Psycho fit scandale aux États-Unis par son tableau implacable d’une société déshumanisée, incarnée par un jeune golden boy de Wall Street obsédé par l’argent et la réussite, par ailleurs serial killer performant. Zombies, évocation satirique d’un monde gangrené par le vice et la superficialité, Glamorama, qui reprend la peinture désabusée de la faune branchée new-yorkaise, Lunar Park, texte plus autobiographique mais où l’on retrouve les paradis artificiels et l’atmosphère violente et sulfureuse des précédents livres, et enfin Suite(s) impériale(s), prolongement de Moins que zéro qui marque aussi la fin d’un cycle, illustrent le génie romanesque d’un écrivain hors norme, au style précis, glacé et incisif.Son sens de l’observation, de la dérision, de la formule qui bouscule et son humour au vitriol font de Bret Easton Ellis l’un des romanciers les plus importants et les plus originaux de la littérature américaine.Les deux volumes des Oeuvres complètes contiennent :Tome 1 : Moins que zéro, Les Lois de l’attraction, American Psycho, Zombies.Tome 2 : Glamorama, Lunar Park, Suite(s) impériale(s).Cette édition, préfacée par Cécile Guilbert, comprend aussi un entretien avec l’auteur réalisé pour Paris Review par Jon-Jon Goulian.

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