American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis 1991

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
philosophical horror literary fiction political

Our Take

Ellis makes consumer culture and murder indistinguishable and forces you to ask which is the metaphor. Bateman may be killing people or fantasising — Ellis refuses to resolve the ambiguity because the ambiguity is the point. A novel about late capitalism so accurate it feels like diagnostic literature.

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