Antonio Arranz Matia
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White
- De : Bret Easton Ellis
- Lu par : Bret Easton Ellis
- Durée : 6 h et 47 min
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Global4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 7
White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates. Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke" cultural watchdogs, and more.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A great novelist, a dull book
- Écrit par : Antonio Arranz Matia le 19/08/2019
- White
- De : Bret Easton Ellis
- Lu par : Bret Easton Ellis
A great novelist, a dull book
Rédigé le : 19/08/2019
How can the author defend the importance of aesthetics and then take a shortcut to write a tedious rant instead of creating a novel and putting these arguments to fiction? A few parts of the book - mostly those reviewing pop culture and movies - are interesting. The rest is a tedious soul searching rant trying to justify a few tweets (let it go), criticizing the politically correctness (obvious argument) and struggling to understand the reactions to the presidency (it is not politics as usual, it is not another president one may disagree with). Bret, get over this and write another great novel!