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American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis that follows the life of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy and successful investment banker in New York City during the late 1980s. As Bateman navigates his professional and social life, he also harbors a secret life as a sadistic serial killer. The novel is a commentary on the emptiness and depravity of the materialistic culture of the time and the alienation and disconnection that can result from it. The graphic and disturbing descriptions of Bateman's violent acts serve to highlight the depths of his psychological disturbance and the true horror of his actions.

A film adaptation was released in 2000 starring Christian Bale with Willem Dafoe and Reese Witherspoon in supporting roles.

Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. Ellis received 13 death threats before the novel was even published. It was named the 53rd most banned and challenged book from 1990-1999 by the American Library Association.

From the publisher

La novela ms infame de Bret Easton Ellis: un clsico contemporneo que se ha convertido en smbolo de una generacin.

El sofisticado, inteligente y vanidoso Patrick Bateman trabaja en Wall Street, idolatra al joven magnate Donald Trump, cena en los restaurantes de moda de Nueva York y es capaz de distinguir un traje Armani a cincuenta metros de distancia. Tambin le gusta violar, torturar, asesinar y desmembrar. American Psycho, la novela ms polmica de Bret Easton Ellis, se ha convertido en el reflejo ms descarnado de la sociedad hipermaterialista de finales de los 80 y en una de las obras maestras de finales del siglo xx. Bret Easton Ellis lanza una crtica corrosiva hacia el egosmo y la depravacin del capitalismo exacerbado: un retrato desolador, irnico y rabiosamente vigente de un mundo al borde del colapso en el que todava vivimos. La novela ms infame de Bret Easton Ellis: un clsico contemporneo que se ha convertido en smbolo de una generacin. �American Psycho sigue siendo la exgesis literaria ms indispensable y salvaje sobre la sociedad que hemos construido. Irvine Welsh. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

First Edition Identification

The first American Psycho edition was published in 1991 (Vintage Contemporaries, New York). The original price was $15 US. Vintage Books purchased the rights to the novel after Simon & Schuster withdrew from the project because of "aesthetic differences over what critics had termed its violent and women-hating content."

American Psycho was not published in hardcover in the United States until 2012 when a limited hardcover edition was published by Centipede Press.

Details

Title American Psycho (Spanish Edition)
Author Bret Easton Ellis
Binding Paperback
Pages 432
Volumes 1
Language SPA
Publisher Debolsillo
Date 2021-03-23
ISBN 9786073191296 / 6073191294
Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.57 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Serial murderers
Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Bret Easton Ellis naci en Los ngeles en 1964. Al acabar el instituto, decidi abandonar el Oeste y viajar a Nueva Inglaterra para estudiar en la Universidad de Bennington. Alentado por sus profesores, durante su ltimo ao de universidad, Ellis complet la que sera su primera novela, Menos que cero (Literatura Random House, 2010; el ttulo est inspirado en una cancin de Elvis Costello), que cosech el aplauso de la crtica y se convirti en libro de culto. Cuando en 1992 public American Psycho, el retrato de un ejecutivo psicpata, se confirm que haba nacido una estrella. Tambin es autor de Las leyes de la atraccin (2002), Los confidentes (1994), Glamourama (1999), Lunar Park (LRH, 2006), Suites imperiales (LRH, 2010) y Blanco (LRH, 2020).