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Bret Easton Ellis, né le 7 mars 1964 à Los Angeles, est un écrivain américain. C'est l'un des auteurs principaux du mouvement Génération X et on le classe parfois parmi les romanciers d'anticipation sociale. Il se considère comme un moraliste, bien que certains voient en lui un nihiliste. Ses personnages sont souvent jeunes, dépravés et vains, mais ils en sont conscients et l'assument. Ellis situe ses romans dans les années 1980, faisant du mercantilisme et de l'industrie du divertissement de cette décennie un symbole. Ses livres, des dystopies qui se déroulent souvent dans des métropoles américaines , sont peuplés de personnages récurrents.

✵ 7. mars 1964
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“Le type sort alors du cabinet de toilette et me dit aussitôt : « Non, pas de musique. Je veux que tu entendes tout. Absolument tout.» Il ferme la radio. Je demande au type si je peux utiliser les toilettes. Julian retire son caleçon. Le type sourit d'un air mystérieux, me dit oui et je vais au cabinet de toilette et je verrouille la porte, ouvre les deux robinets du lavabo et tire plusieurs fois la chasse d'eau en essayant de vomir, mais j'y arrive pas. Je m'essuie la bouche et retourne dans la chambre. Le soleil est descendu, les ombres envahissent les murs, Julian essaie de sourire. Le type lui rend son sourire, les ombres s'étendent sur son visage.”

Bret Easton Ellis livre Moins que zéro

Citations de l'auteur, Moins que zéro, 1985

“Quesse tu comptes faire? T'as nulle part où aller. Tu veux raconter ton histoire à tout le monde? Que tu as tapiné pour rembourser une dette de drogue? Mon p'tit, t'es plus naïf que j'croyais. Allez, t'en fais donc pas baby, ça va aller mieux.”

Bret Easton Ellis livre Moins que zéro

Citations de l'auteur, Moins que zéro, 1985

“Il pleut toujours. Et ce soir-là, après avoir reçu trois coups de fil silencieux, je casse un verre en le lançant contre le mur. Personne ne vient me demander ce qui se passe. Je m'allonge ensuite sur mon lit, prends vingt milligrammes de Valium pour accélérer la descente de coke, mais ça ne m'aide pas vraiment à dormir. J'éteins MTV, mets la radio, mais ne réussis pas à trouver KNAC, si bien que j'éteins la radio, regarde la Vallée, les néons et les tubes fluo sous le ciel pourpre nocturne et je reste là, nu, devant la fenêtre, à regarder les nuages défiler, puis je m'allonge sur mon lit et j'essaie de me rappeler depuis combien de temps je suis de retour à la maison et puis je me lève, arpente ma chambre, allume une autre cigarette en attendant la sonnerie du téléphone. Voila à quoi ressemblent les nuits quand il pleut.”

Bret Easton Ellis livre Moins que zéro

Citations de l'auteur, Moins que zéro, 1985

“Et la mort passe par vagues successives.
Les gens sont retournés, pliés en deux à l'envers, arrachés de leurs sièges, comme les dents sont arrachées des crânes, les gens sont aveuglés, leurs corps projetés dans l'atmosphère contre le plafond et puis chassés à l'arrière de l'avion, s'écrasant contre les autres passagers qui hurlent, tandis que des morceaux d'aluminium ne cessent de se détacher du fuselage, de tournoyer dans l'avion bondé et de découper des membres, et le sang se met à tourbilloner partout, les gens en sont trempés, le crachent par la bouche, clignent les paupières pour le chasser de leurs yeux, et puis un énorme pan de métal vole à travers la cabine et scalpe une rangée entière de passagers, leur découpant le sommet du crâne, tandis qu'un autre éclat traverse le visage d'une jeune femme, lui coupant la tête en deux mais sans la tuer vraiment.”

Bret Easton Ellis livre Glamorama

Citations de l'auteur, Glamorama, 1999

“Je pense J&B. Je pense verre de J&B dans ma main droite. Je pense main. Charivari. Chemise de chez Charivari. Je pense fusilli. Je pense Jami Gertz. je pense que j'aimerais enculer Jami Gertz. Porshe 911. Je pense au shar-pei. J'aimerais posséder un shar-pei. Je pense que j'ai vingt-six ans. L'année prochaine, j'aurai vingt-sept ans. Un valium. Je voudrais un valium. Je pense, non, deux valium. Je pense téléphone cellulaire…”

Bret Easton Ellis

Citations de l'auteur, American Psycho, 1991

Bret Easton Ellis: Citations en anglais

“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 livre 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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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 livre Lunar Park

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

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Bret Easton Ellis livre 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 livre 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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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 livre 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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