Review of a masterpiece: Bret Easton Ellis’ new book The Shards – Culture

If you were to be precise about the history of ideas, Bret Easton Ellis would be one of the great conservatives of his time. His debut novel “Unter Null” (1985), on the other hand, was regarded as a fundamental work of pop literature, and his bestsellers such as “American Psycho” (1991) and “Glamorama” (1999) were pushed into the genre that in the canon was always a euphemism for trivial literature from the hipster environment was. When Ellis then ten years ago with his podcast beganthis brought him the furor of the social networks.