Ellis, Bret Easton: *1964
Less Than Zero, 1985 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- The novel tells the story of a university student who comes home and discovers that there never was such a thing as a home for him.
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Facts
- Named after an Elvis Costello song. Lyrics
- Named after an Elvis Costello song. Lyrics
- Reviews
- Interview with Mark Amerika and Alexander Laurence with information about Less Than Zero, 1994
- Winter read: Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis: "The only real development in the book is Clay's gradually evolving disgust as he moves like a wraith through an endless round of casual sex, drugs, and violence that changes nothing about the world in which, and the people to whom, they occur." The Guardian; December 29, 2011
- Review from Dead End Follies
- Articles
- Bret Easton Ellis on Less Than Zero, Its Adaptation, and Its Sequel Imperial Bedrooms. May 17, 2010
- Re-Reading ‘Less than Zero’ as an Adult: "Though it certainly succeeds in conveying a paradoxical mood of angsty apathy, the book’s writing at the sentence level is fairly uneven". Rob Horning; December 1, 2010
- 12 Surprising Facts. July 3, 2023
- The Young and Ugly: "Though it certainly succeeds in conveying a paradoxical mood of angsty apathy, the book’s writing at the sentence level is fairly uneven". Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times. June 8, 1985
- The dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis: "The difference between sincerity and satire is in the eye of the beholder. Someone with critical thinking can detect satire. Someone who is used to swallowing blindly whatever is served will never understand subtlety." Ottessa Moshfegh, The Guardian. March 2, 2019
- Notes on Less Than Zero: "Bret Easton Ellis said that three or four of his most famous novels deliberately have no narrative at all because he considered narartive to be artificial at the time when he wrote those stories." Nathan Schuetz. January 11, 2023
- Spatialized Capitalism in Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms (go to page 5) "Capitalism is spatialized and embedded in the urban space of Ellis’ Los Angeles. Through this spatialized capitalism, the characters of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms are engulfed and entrapped, transforming them into twodimensional subjects subjected to serve the proliferation of consumer capitalism." Karo Nyman. April 2022