Bret Easton Ellis

This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis''s oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis''s novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis''s work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary culture, which offers new paths of understanding and ways of critiquing the contemporary au...