Álruhában a semmi közepén. Megközelítési szempontok Bret Easton Ellis regényeihez
Disguised in the Middle of Nowhere. Aspects of Approach to the Novels of Bret Easton Ellis

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to interpret the early novels of Bret Easton Ellis titled Less Than Zero and American Psycho. It consists of two main parts: the two novels themselves and the attempts at interpreting the questions raised by them. The first section unfolds Ellis’ first novel’s reception, then it tries to explore its reference system: social problems, intermediate and materialist elements, motifs of the aforementioned generation. The second section of the paper concentrates on the worthily famous third piece of the Ellis life work titled American Psycho and the emerging problems and phenomena connected to it. Based on the creation and reception of the novel, it tries to line up those moments which could serve as the base of the critical voices as well as it tries to explain them. At the end the research focuses on the motif of the serial killer and on the question of the fictive narrator’s world.

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