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Bret Easton Ellis je americký spisovatel.

Patří do Generace X a řadí se do literární skupiny Brat Pack. Sám se označuje moralistou, ale bývá označovaný jako nihilista. Jeho postavy jsou mladí lidé, kteří si jsou vědomi své zkaženosti a jsou s tím smířeni.

Vyrůstal v Sherman Oaks v údolí San Fernando. Vystudoval hudbu a až do vydaní své první knihy Less Than Zero hrál v různých skupinách. V roce 1987 se přestěhoval do New Yorku.

Jeho nejkontroverznějším dílem je román Americké psycho, který odmítlo vydavatelství Simon & Schuster vydat a následně vyšlo u Vintage. Hlavním hrdinou je Patrick Bateman. Bret Ellis sa vyjádřil, že postavu Patricka Batemana napsal podle svého otce Roberta Ellisa. Později podle něj byl natočen i stejnojmenný film. Wikipedia  

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„Naše životy nejsou vzájemně propojené. Tato teorie je nesmyslná. Někteří lidé tu skutečně nemusí být.“

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Bret Easton Ellis: Citáty anglicky

“She staggers over to the bathroom door and grabs the edge of it to balance herself and blood starts running down her legs in thin rivulets and when she lifts up the robe we both can see her underwear soaked with blood and she pulls it off, panicking, and suddenly a huge gush of blood expels itself from beneath the robe, splashing all over the bathroom floor.She gasps, a thick noise comes out of her throat and she doubles over, grabbing her stomach, then she screams. Looking surprised and still clutching her stomach, she vomits will staggering backwards, collapsing onto the bathroom floor. There are strands of tissue hanging out of her.”

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Bret Easton Ellis kniha Glamorama

Glamorama (1998)

“I reread that book in the summer of '03.... And I hadn't looked at that book either since '91. And I was dreading it. I thought it was going to be a really terrible novel. Everything everyone had ever said about it was going to be true.... And I started reading it… and I was surprised. It was good. It was fun. It was not nearly as pretentious as I remember I wanted it to be when I was writing it. Not nearly as weighted down with the importance that I thought I was investing it with. I found it really fast-moving. I found it really funny. And I liked it a lot. The violence was… it made my toes curl. I really freaked out. I couldn't believe how violent it was. It was truly upsetting. I had to steel myself to reread those passages.”

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Bret Easton Ellis

On American Psycho
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=571852

“It's definitely the book that I can tell—I don't know if other people can tell but I can tell as a writer–-is probably the most divisive that I've written. It has an equal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn't really hold true with the other books. It was the one that took the longest to write, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It's an unwieldy book… I like it.”

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On Glamorama
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=571852

“I read it for the first time in about 20 years this year–-recently. It wasn't so bad. I get it. I get fan mail now from people who weren't really born yet when the book came out. I don't think it's a perfect book by any means, but it's valid. I get where it comes from. I get what it is. I know that sounds so ambiguous. It's sort of out of my hands and it has its reputation so what can you do about it? There's a lot of it that I wish was slightly more elegantly written. Overall, I was pretty shocked. It was pretty good writing for someone who was 19. I was pretty surprised by the level of writing.”

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On Less Than Zero
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=571852

“It might be my favorite book of mine. It was a very exciting time in my life. I was writing that book while I was at college. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There was a lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really fun book to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The stream of conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that about the book. It's kind of all over the place. It's casual. It's scruffy. That's the one book of mine that I have a very, very soft spot for.”

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On The Rules of Attraction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=571852

“I didn’t think anyone outside of LA would read Less Than Zero. I thought The Rules of Attraction would be a huge hit. I assumed people would react to American Psycho as a comedy. I thought I showcased some of my best writing in The Informers. And I was totally caught off-guard by the amount of good reviews and bad reviews Glamorama elicited. I’ve stopped guessing because I’m always wrong. And quite honestly: I don’t care. Writing the book is the main thing. Waiting for a reaction: a waste of time. But, obviously, I hope people respond to the book in a favorable way. I don’t want people to dislike it. But I don’t really mind if they do.”

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Bret Easton Ellis kniha Lunar Park

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307264305&view=auqa

“That doesn't sound like…the Jayster.”

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Bret Easton Ellis kniha Lunar Park

Lunar Park (2005)

“I'm Christian Bale", Russel, says, taking [her hand].
"Oh right," she says. "Yeah, I thought I recognized you. You're the actor.”

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Bret Easton Ellis kniha Glamorama

Glamorama (1998)

“As a general rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.”

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Bret Easton Ellis kniha Glamorama

Glamorama (1998)

“I hear today's college women are 'prodigious.'"
"Prodigious? Is that what you heard?"
"Well, I read it in a magazine. It was something I wanted to believe."
"The Jayster. Always a dreamer.”

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Lunar Park (2005)

“A case could be made for Mr. Ellis as a covert moralist and closet sentimentalist, the best kind, the kind who leaves you space in which to respond as your predispositions nudge you, whether as a commissar or hand-wringer or, like me, as an admirer of his intelligence and craft.”

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George Stade, The New York Times Book Review.

“I didn’t think anyone outside of LA would read Less Than Zero. I thought The Rules of Attraction would be a huge hit. I assumed people would react to American Psycho as a comedy. I thought I showcased some of my best writing in The Informers.”

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Bret Easton Ellis kniha Lunar Park

And I was totally caught off-guard by the amount of good reviews and bad reviews Glamorama elicited. I’ve stopped guessing because I’m always wrong. And quite honestly: I don’t care. Writing the book is the main thing. Waiting for a reaction: a waste of time. But, obviously, I hope people respond to the book in a favorable way. I don’t want people to dislike it. But I don’t really mind if they do.
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