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"American Psycho" : Satirists make the best Moralists
Title: "American Psycho" : Satirists make the best Moralists
Category: Literature / World Literature
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"American Psycho" : Satirists make the best Moralists
AMERICAN PSYCHO
"In such a world, art becomes the remaining link to the unknown."
In his satirical novel American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis provides the framework for his readers moralise on a level unobtainable through traditional narrative. Through his protagonist, Patrick Bateman, the author parodies 80's America to a point beyond comfort, concerned more with cultural exploration and exaggeration than moral positioning. Bateman takes us to a heightened moral and emotional void decaying with indifference. …showed first 75 words of 2974 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2974 total…The New York Times (Books of the Times), 11th March 1991
Continuum pp 47
American Psycho, pp 373
AS pp 373
As pp 332
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, "Psycho: Whiter Death Without Life?" The New York Times (Books of the Times), 11th March 1991
Murphett, Julian, Ibid, pp 25.
Ellis, Bret Easton, Quoted from Robert Love's "Psycho Analysis," Ibid, pp 40
Ellis, Bret Easton, Quoted from Robert Love's "Psycho Analysis," Ibid, pp 40
ellis, brett
Ellis, Bret Easton, Quoted from Robert Love's "Psycho Analysis," Ibid, pp 41
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