Bret Easton Ellis, Jürgen Theobaldy, Georges Perec, Milo Dor, Jan Frederik Helmers

De Amerikaanse schrijver Bret Easton Ellis werd geboren op 7 maart 1964 in Los Angeles. Zie ook alle tags voor Bret Easton Ellis op dit blog.

Uit: Imperial Bedrooms

“The scenes from the novel that hurt the most chronicled my relationship with Blair, especially in a scene near the novel’s end when I broke it off with her on a restaurant patio overlooking Sunset Boulevard and where a billboard that read disappear here kept distracting me (the author added that I was wearing sunglasses when I told Blair that I never loved her). I hadn’t mentioned that painful afternoon to the author but it appeared verbatim in the book and that’s when I stopped talking to Blair and couldn’t listen to the Elvis Costello songs we knew by heart (“You Little Fool,” “Man Out of Time,” “Watch Your Step”) and yes, she had given me a scarf at a Christmas party, and yes, she had danced over to me mouthing Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”and yes, she had called me “a fox,” and yes, she found out I had slept with a girl I picked up on a rainy night at the Whisky, and yes, the author had informed her of that. He wasn’t, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us — except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

But there was no point in being angry with him. When the book was published in the spring of 1985, the author had already left Los Angeles. In 1982 he attended the same small college in New Hampshire that I’d tried to disappear into, and where we had little or no contact.(There’s a chapter in his second novel, which takes place at Camden, where he parodies Clay — just another gesture, another cruel reminder of how he felt about me. Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.”) Because of his presence I stayed at Camden only one year and then transferred to Brown in 1983 though in the second novel I’m still in New Hampshire during the fall term of 1985.”

 

Bret Easton Ellis (Los Angeles, 7 maart 1964)

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