Blanco

Bret Easton Ellis created Patrick Bateman, the celebrated Wall Street executive who, in the masterpiece American Psycho, best described the delusions of an entire era. After a brilliant novel career, the enfant terrible of American literature returns to the fray with his acclaimed first non-fiction book: an autobiography that traces his childhood, his controversial career and the literary, cinematographic and popular culture references of the seventies and eighties that marked his life. But Bret Easton Ellis does not stay in the past, conducting an insightful and totally self-censorship-free analysis of present-day society, wondering what the hell has happened in the past four decades. Blanco is a defense of the right to freedom of expression and a critique of the dictatorship of neo-puritanism, millennial hypersensitivity and political correctness in the era of social media. Bret Easton Ellis vindicates humor and satire as tools of provocation and, above all, demands a freedom that vanishes. The sharp reflections that he brings to the table come to revolutionize the present day with a provocative and corrosive honesty.