There was an event in 2019: The return of Bret Easton Ellis. The author of American Psycho and Less than Zero or the Laws of Attraction , published a new book in May, White , at Robert Laffont. This is not a novel but an essay.
To appear and society
It had been 9 years since the writer had published anything. White , his new book, reads like a novel, with a beginning, a middle, an end. It starts with his childhood. He remembers a time when the Internet did not exist and where we hang out with his friends, at some, at others. That does not mean it was better before, but it gives him an opportunity to question himself. Most of his novels talk about appearing in society and for him, that's what he explains in the book, with social networks, one reaches the quintessence of the fake.
The relationship to art
He talks a lot about cinema too and about our new relationship to art. He explains that his companion, Todd, who is part of the millenial generation, that is to say less than 35 years, is unable to concentrate several hours on the same object: watching a movie or reading a book. He explains that when watching a movie, Todd can leave 10 minutes, come back, and find the movie awesome. It's a generation that has become multitasking. Bret Easton Ellis does not judge: "It does not make a bad person," he says, but the relationship to art to change. I questioned him precisely about his relation to literature. An exciting book, a portrait of the time, served by Bret Easton Ellis style, that is direct, funny and free.