'Less than zero': a generational classic worth revisiting!

Описание: A classic of contemporary American fiction still shocking today: Bret Easton Ellis' 'Less than zero'.
This novel is also interesting in what it tells us about fiction in general, and the links we can make between it and the art of writing.
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0:00 Introduction
04:16 Form and function
14:44 When absence...is presence
20:05 Less than Zero as mirror of a generation
28:17 The film adaptation - novels and films
35:33 Conclusion
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Works and authors referred to in this video:
B. E. Ellis: Less than zero (1985); American psycho (1991);
D. Tart: The secret history (1992)
J. Lethem: The ecstasy of influence (2011)
D. Eggers: What is the what (2006)
J-G. Ballard: The drowned world (1962); Highrise (1975); Concrete island (1974); Short stories (1988)
F. Zeri: Behind the image (1990)
Salinger: The catcher in the rye (1951)
D.B.C. Pierre: Vernon God Little (2003)
J-F. Lyotard: The postmodern condition (1986)
D. Coupland: Generation X (1991); Girlfriend in a coma (1998)
F. Dostoievsky: The brothers Karamazov