Bret Easton Ellis, Robert Harris, Jürgen Theobaldy, Georges Perec, Abe Kōbō, Reinhard Kaiser, Manfred Gregor, Jan Frederik Helmers, Alessandro Manzoni

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: American Psycho

“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE wno ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Mirémbles on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce 5: Pierce and twenty-six doesn’t seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, “Be My Baby” on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.
“I’m resourceful,” Price is saying. “I’m creative, I’m young, unscrupulous, highly motivated, highly skilled. In essence what I’m saying is that society cannot afford to lose me. I’m an asset.”
Price calms down, continues to stare out the cab‘s dirty window, probably at the word FEAR sprayed in red grafiti on the side of a McDonald’s on Fourth and Seventh. “I mean the fact remains that no one gives a shit about their work, everybody hates their job, I hate my job, you be told me you hate yours. What do I do? Go back to Los Angeles? Not an alternative. I didn’t transfer from UCLA to Stanford to put up with this. I mean am I alone in thinking we’re not making enough money?” Like in a movie another bus appears, another poster for Les Misérables replaces the word-not the same bus because someone has written the word DYKE over Eponine’s face. Tim blurts out, “I have a co-op here. I have a place in the Hamptons, for Christ sakes.”
Parents’, guy. It’s the parents’.”
“I’m buying it from them. Will you fucking turn this up?” he snaps but distractedly at the driver, the Crystals still blaring from the radio.
“It don’t go up no higher,” maybe the driver says.
Timothy ignores him and irritably continues. “I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
Maybe the ODM III or ORG ll dynamic tuning systems?” His voice softens here. “Either one. Hip my friend, very hip.”

 

 
Bret Easton Ellis (Los Angeles, 7 maart 1964)
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