Transgression in the works of Bret Easton Ellis: the case of Imperial bedrooms

摘要

The paper argues that Imperial bedrooms, Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel to date engages, among other things, with the author’s own fiction on manifold levels: it does not only mark his return to the minimalist mode of writing, but effectively reclaims narrative authority from cinematic adaptations of Ellis’s oeuvre, negotiates the terms of the fictional autobiographical pact set up by his previous novels, most notably Less than zero and Lunar park, and, finally, reinterprets and exposes, within the generic boundaries of the California noir teemed with existential(ist) issues, what Baudrillard called "the perfect crime” committed by contemporary media.