Glamorama

bret easton ellis pierre guglielmina

"Ça commence par cent pages brillantes, drôles, méchantes, sur la journée de Victor Ward, un jeune Américain branché qui organise la soirée d'inauguration d'une boîte de nuit new-yorkaise. [...] Puis le roman bascule. Sous la menace, Victor est envoyé en Europe à la recherche d'une actrice disparue, son ancienne camarade de fac. Il se trouve mêlé aux people de Londres et de Paris, participe comme guest star au tournage d'un film à propos desdits people, et assiste à des séances de torture qui, pour être mises en scène, n'en sont pas moins sanglantes, insoutenables et bien réelles. [...] Glamorama devient un feuilleton excessivement violent, et c'est de cet excès feuilletonesque que le livre tire sa force, sa puissance, sa profondeur. Car Bret Easton Ellis, au-delà de la satire, se situe dans le domaine de la morale. Il parle d'un monde où tout n'est qu'images, où choses et gens n'existent qu'à partir du moment où ils sont filmés et montrés. [...] Difficile, éprouvant, agaçant, Glamorama est un livre ambitieux qui, une fois refermé, n'abandonne pas le lecteur." (Christophe Mercier, Le Point)

Genres fictioncontemporaryhorrorthrillernovelsamericanliteraturethe united states of americaliterary fictionsatire

537 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1,1998

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manhattan new york city new york, paris, london england,

This edition

Format: 537 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: February 15, 2001 by 10/18
ISBN: 9782264031914
ASIN: 2264031913
Language: French

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About the author

bret easton ellis

Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters.
When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller Less than Zero (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, American Psycho (1991), was his most successful. Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year.
Ellis's novels have become increasingly metafictional. Lunar Park (2005), a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews. Imperial Bedrooms (2010), marketed as a sequel to Less than Zero, continues in this vein. The Shards (2023) is a fictionalized memoir of Ellis's final year of high school in 1981 Los Angeles.
Four of Ellis's works have been made into films. Less than Zero was adapted in 1987 as a film of the same name, but the film bore little resemblance to the novel. Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released in 2000. Roger Avary's adaptation of The Rules of Attraction was released in 2002. The Informers, co-written by Ellis and based on his collection of short stories, was released in 2008. Ellis also wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film The Canyons.