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. …
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…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