Next Section Less Than Zero Summary How To Cite in MLA Format Isla, Rina. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. A book that is both elusive and mesmerizing, haunting in its horror, truly unforgettable. The book deals with themes of drug addiction, eating disorders and child abuse. Bret Easton Ellis describes, without judgment, as a simple observer, the rich and helpless youth of the 1980s, a society to which he belongs to an extent. The story follows the so-called American jeunesse dorée, where eighteen-year-old Clay returns to Los Angeles for Christmas and gets to meet his old friends. However, Ellis did say that it was in no way autobiographical and shouldn't be considered as such.
It is clear that a lot of Less Than Zero was inspired by the author's surroundings, it is after all a novel about real life written with a facade of fiction. The novel was edited for two years after that, mostly to polish earlier drafts which were more like "autobiographical teen diary entries," according to Ellis himself. He was advised later-on by Joe McGinnis, his creative writing teacher, to return to the first-person, which gave birth to the minimalist style Brett Easton Ellis is so famous for today. Bret Easton Ellis became overnight a star of American literature, and he has since then, published a sequel to his controversial debut called Imperial Bedrooms.Įllis wrote the first draft of Less Than Zero in less than eight weeks, third-person style. It didn't stop it from becoming an internationally notorious roman-à-clef, a timeless classic that can't help but mesmerize the readers. The novel scandalized America when it first came out and received a good amount of mixed reviews the public either loved Less Than Zero or hated it. Published in 1985, Less Than Zero is the first novel of Bret Easton Ellis and was published when the author was twenty-one and still a student at the private liberal arts Bennington College, home to a lot of notable alumni.
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