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In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. 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.… (mere)
USA, ca 1990 Indeholder afsnittene "April Fools", "Morning", "Harry's", "Pastels", "Tunnel", "Office", "Health Club", "Date", "Dry Cleaners", "Harry's", "Deck Chairs", "Business Meeting", "Video Store than D'Agostino's", "Facial", "Date with Evelyn", "Tuesday", "Genesis", "Lunch", "Concert", "A Glimpse of a Thursday Afternoon", "Yale Club", "Killing Dog", "Girls", "Shopping", "Christmas Party", "Nell's", "Paul Owen", "Paul Smith", "Birthday, Brothers", "Lunch with Bethany", "Thursday", "Whitney Houston", "Dinner with Secretary", "Detective", "Summer", "Girls", "Confronted by a Faggot", "Killing Child at Zoo", "Girls", "Rat", "Another Night", "Girl", "At Another New Restaurant", "Tries to Cook and Eat Girl", "Taking an Uzi to the Gym", "Chase Manhattan", "Huey Lewis and The News", "In Bed with Courtney", "Smith & Wollensky", "Something on Television", "Sandstone", "The Best City for Business", "Working Out", "End of the 1980s", "Aspen", "Valentine's Day", "Bum on Fifth", "New Club", "Taxi Driver", "At Harry's".
Børsmægleren Patrick Bateman har masser af penge og masser af dyre vaner. Han arbejder ved Pierce & Pierce på Wall Street. Han er også psykopat og slipper afsted med flere mord. Lange passager med analyser af rockgrupper, lange smører om dyrt tøj, dyre ure, dyre restauranter veksler med sex og mord og drab på både bekendte og nogle helt tilfældige, fx en lille dreng i zoologisk have eller en hjemløs.
Til sidst slutter historien med ikke at slutte, men blot fortsætte. Det hele er fortalt af Patrick Bateman, så om han virkeligt har begået alle uhyrlighederne eller det hele bare er en drøm?
En klassiker i den forstand, at det er en bog man bør have læst. Jeg sad med kvalme gennem næsten hele bogen - på en mærkelig måde utrolig tvedelt, fordi hovedpersonen Patrick Bateman er tiltrækkende og frastødende på samme tid. Hovedpersonens omgivelser er let genkendelige for min generation, men hans handlinger er dybt frastødende. En bog, der er oplagt til eks. opgaver i gymnasiet, fordi den indeholder så meget intertekstualitet og oplagte emner at diskutere.
Jeg mener at American Psycho er et mesterværk, dog kan den danske oversættelse ikke anbefales, da den desværre er oversat meget ringe. Læs den engelske udgave. ( )
What’s rarely said in all the furor over this novel is that it’s a satire, a hilarious, repulsive, boring, seductive, deadpan satire of what we now call--as if it were something in the past--the Age of Reagan.
You get the feeling that Mr. Ellis began writing his novel with a single huge emotion of outrage, and that he never in his three years of working on it paused to modulate that emotion or to ask if it was helping to construct an imaginary world. How else could he have written scenes so flat and tedious that the reader wants to scream? Surely not with profit or exploitation in mind. If so, commercialism has never before produced anything so boring.
Where Bonfire owed some part of its success to the reassurance it offered the rich—“You may be silly,” Wolfe was saying in effect, “but, brother, the people down at the bottom are unspeakably worse”—Ellis’s novel inverts the equation. I cannot recall a piece of fiction by an American writer that depicts so odious a ruling class—worse, a young ruling class of Wall Street princelings ready, presumably, by the next century to manage the mighty if surrealistic levers of our economy...
If the extracts of American Psycho are horrendous, therefore, when taken out of context, that is Ellis’s fault. They are, for the most part, simply not written well enough. If one is embarked on a novel that hopes to shake American society to the core, one has to have something new to say about the outer limits of the deranged—one cannot simply keep piling on more and more acts of machicolated butchery.
Information fra den franske Almen Viden.Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
L'auteur de ce journal et le journal lui-même appartiennent évidemment au domaine de la fiction. Et pourtant, si l'on considère les circonstances sous l'action desquelles s'est formée notre société, il apparaît qu'il peut, qu'il doit exister parmi nous des êtres semblables à l'auteur de ce journal. J'ai voulu montrer au public, en en soulignant quelque peu les traits, un des personnages de l'époque qui vient de s'écouler, un des représentants de la génération qui s'éteint actuellement. Dans ce premier fragment, intitulé Le Sous-Sol, le personnage se présente au lecteur, il expose ses idées et semble vouloir expliquer les causes qui l'ont fait naître dans notre société. Dans le second fragment, il relate certains évènements de son existence.
Fedor Dostoïevski Le Sous-Sol
Une des grandes erreurs que l'on peut commetre est de croire que les bonnes manières ne sont que l'expression d'une pensée heureuse. Les bonnes manières peuvent être l'expression d'un large éventail d'attitudes. Voici le but essentiel de la civilisation : exprimer de façon élégante et non pas agressive. Une de ces errances est le mouvement naturiste, rousseauiste des années soixante où l'on disait : "Pourquoi ne pas dire tout simplement ce que l'on pense ?" La civilisation ne peut exister sans quelques contraintes. Si nous suivions toutes nos impulsions, nous nous entretuerions.
Miss Manners (Judith Martin)
And a thing fell apart Nobody paid much attention
Talking Heads
Tilegnelse
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for Bruce Taylor
Første ord
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ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE, is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Misérables on its side blocking the view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.
Citater
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And if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of this table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him. - Timothy Price
"Beat the shit out of him," the girl suggests, pointing at me. "Oh honey," I say, shaking my head, "the things I could do to you with a coat hanger."
"Blitzen was a reindeer" "The only Jewish one," Peterson reminds us.
...McDermott, in a state of total frustration, asked the girls if they knew the names of any of the nine planets. Libby and Caron guessed the moon. Daisy wasn't sure but she actually guessed...Comet. Daisy thought that Comet was a planet. Dumbfounded, McDermott, Taylor and I all assured her that it was.
"Lobster to start with? And for an entrée?" "What do you want me to order? The Pringle Potato Chip appetizer?"
"Clam down. You look like a wild man." "I am clam, I mean calm," I say..."
"I had a tan then, didn't I?" I ask. "I mean I wasn't Casper the Ghost or anything, was I?"
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and this is followed by a sigh, then a slight shrug and another sigh, and above the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry's is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes' color are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. 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.
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Indeholder afsnittene "April Fools", "Morning", "Harry's", "Pastels", "Tunnel", "Office", "Health Club", "Date", "Dry Cleaners", "Harry's", "Deck Chairs", "Business Meeting", "Video Store than D'Agostino's", "Facial", "Date with Evelyn", "Tuesday", "Genesis", "Lunch", "Concert", "A Glimpse of a Thursday Afternoon", "Yale Club", "Killing Dog", "Girls", "Shopping", "Christmas Party", "Nell's", "Paul Owen", "Paul Smith", "Birthday, Brothers", "Lunch with Bethany", "Thursday", "Whitney Houston", "Dinner with Secretary", "Detective", "Summer", "Girls", "Confronted by a Faggot", "Killing Child at Zoo", "Girls", "Rat", "Another Night", "Girl", "At Another New Restaurant", "Tries to Cook and Eat Girl", "Taking an Uzi to the Gym", "Chase Manhattan", "Huey Lewis and The News", "In Bed with Courtney", "Smith & Wollensky", "Something on Television", "Sandstone", "The Best City for Business", "Working Out", "End of the 1980s", "Aspen", "Valentine's Day", "Bum on Fifth", "New Club", "Taxi Driver", "At Harry's".
Børsmægleren Patrick Bateman har masser af penge og masser af dyre vaner. Han arbejder ved Pierce & Pierce på Wall Street. Han er også psykopat og slipper afsted med flere mord. Lange passager med analyser af rockgrupper, lange smører om dyrt tøj, dyre ure, dyre restauranter veksler med sex og mord og drab på både bekendte og nogle helt tilfældige, fx en lille dreng i zoologisk have eller en hjemløs.
Til sidst slutter historien med ikke at slutte, men blot fortsætte. Det hele er fortalt af Patrick Bateman, så om han virkeligt har begået alle uhyrlighederne eller det hele bare er en drøm?
Mærkelig bog. (