American Psycho -

Bret Easton Ellis

Vintage

1991

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-10: 0307278638

The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron.

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

Ambiguity

What makes this book a interesting read is the non linear approach in telling the story, because is a bit confusing wheter it was real or not, my guess is that it depends on your point of view as a reader, but after all, as Patrick Batman would say, “There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory…”
The book will end the same way it starts, ambiguous.