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Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.
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In 1985, twenty-one-year-old Bret Easton Ellis jolted the literary world with his first novel, Less than Zero, and was hailed by more than one critic as the voice of the new generation. His subsequent...
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While still an undergraduate at Bennington College in Vermont, Ellis published his best-selling novel Less Than Zero. His books have endured literary criticism ranging from "infantile and sophomoric" ...
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Frequently disliked by reviewers, faulted for his youth and apparent disregard for political correctness, Bret Easton Ellis was the enfant terrible of 1980s fiction. His first novel, Less Than Zero (1...
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In the following essay, Pan looks at the stylistic features of Less Than Zero in relationship to the visual media of television, video and film.
The first question which comes to mind in reading Ellis...
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In the following essay, Freese contemplates the narrative qualities and social commentary of Less Than Zero.
In 1985, a twenty-year-old Bennington College undergraduate named Bret Easton Ellis publish...
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In the following essay, Sahlin considers Ellis's Less Than Zero in the existential tradition of writers such as Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzge...
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Teaching Less than Zero
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