‘I will always be defined by Patrick Bateman,’ says author, adding that the psychotic anti-hero would no longer be a fan of Donald TrumpAmerican Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has said he will always be defined by his iconic, and psychopathic antihero Patrick Bateman,and revealed that his character would be “embarrassed” by Donald Trump today after revering him in the novel.
Ellis’s iconic book about 1980s consumerist culture and masculinity was published in 1991; it was dropped the preceding year by publisher Simon & Schuster due to concerns about the content and eventually published by Vintage Books (now Penguin Random House). It was hugely divisive due to Bateman’s detatched dabblings in rape, torture, and cannibalism,murder and necrophilia; in the Guardian, Joan Smith called it “nasty, and brutish and long” and the current York Times deemed it “the most loathsome offering of the season”.
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Source: theguardian.com