BOOK CLUB: AMERICAN PSYCHO by Bret Easton Ellis

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning” - Bret Easton Ellis

Themes we are going to explore:

• Masculinity
• “Death of the author”
• Identity through material gain and status
• Violence in literature
• Madness
• Yuppie greed in 1980s New York
• Book vs Movie

Interview with the author: LINK

Can I come without reading the book?
No.

Questions about the book TBA

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