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Escrito cuando el autor tenía 20 años, su primera novela cuenta la historia de Clay, un estudiante de la universidad de New Hampshire que vuelve a casa en Los Angeles por Navidad. Clay regresa a Los Ángeles durante las vacaciones de Navidad. En el aeropuerto lo espera su novia Blair, por la que siente una profunda indiferencia. Un escueto mensaje de su madre sobre la mesa de la cocina y la nueva criada lo aguardan en casa. Enseguida intenta ponerse en contacto con Julian, su huidizo mejor amigo, que ha abandonado la universidad y coquetea con la heroína, pero no consigue encontrarlo. Sin nada mejor que hacer, se reincorpora a sus viejas rutinas: un frenesí de fiestas interminables, sexo sin miramientos y montañas de coca. Retrato de una sociedad en la que cada adolescente tiene su dealer y en la que las emociones se miden en fajos de billetes, Menos que cero es la primera novela del autor de American Psycho. Escrita cuando Bret Easton Ellis contaba solo veinte años, Menos que cero narra, con un estilo gélido y contundente, las andanzas de un grupo de adolescentes a la deriva en los años ochenta, y sorprendió a la crítica para convertirse inmediatamente en obra de culto. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles, who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. * The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." --The New York Times They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, underground rock clubs, and within the seamy world of L.A. after dark.… (más)
bluepiano: Also about apparently worldly young passing away the time. More like reportage than like Ellis's sidelong appeal to readers' symapthies/antipathies and is the better book for that
Menos que cero (que es también el título de una canción amarga y cínica de Elvis Costello) cuenta la historia de un joven estudiante que regresa a su casa de Los Angeles para pasar las vacaciones y reencuentra a su grupo de amigos, punkis dorados, hijos de productores y magnates de Hollywood, un clan en el que cada villa tiene su piscina, cada adolescente su dealer.
The narrator, Clay, and his friends - who have names like Rip, Blair, Kim, Cliff, Trent and Alana - all drive BMW's and Porsches, hang out at the Polo Lounge and Spago, and spend their trust funds on designer clothing, porno films and, of course, liquor and drugs. None of them, so far as the reader can tell, has any ambitions, aspirations, or interest in the world at large. And their philosophy, if they have any at all, represents a particularly nasty combination of EST and Machiavelli: ''If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.''
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"This is the game that moves as you play..." --X
"There's a feeling I get when I look West..." --Led Zeppelin
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del Conocimiento Común sueco.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For Joe McGinniss
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
Citas
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Disappear here!
The psychiatrist I see during the four weeks I'm back is young and has a beard and drives a 450 SL and has a house in Malibu (...) Sometimes I'll yell at him and he'll yell back. I tell him that I have this bizarre sexual fantasies and his interest will increase noticeably. I'll start to laugh for no reason and then feel sick.
Next day I stop by Julian's house in Bel Air with the money in a green envelope. He's lying on his bed in a wet bathing suit watching MTV. It's dark in the room, the only light coming from the black and white images on the television.
"You must do something" "Oh, I don't know." "What do you do?" she asks. "Things, I guess". I sit on the matress. "Like what?" "I don't know. Things." My voice breaks and for a moment I think about the coyote and I think that I'm going to cry, but it passes and I just want to get my vest and get out of here.
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called “Los Angeles” and the words and images were so harsh and bitter that the song would reverberate in my mind for days. The images, I later found out, were personal and no one I knew shared them. The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Images of people, teenagers my own age, looking up from the asphalt and being blinded by the sun. These images stayed with me even after I left the city. Images so violent and malicious that they seemed to be my only point of reference for a long time afterwards. After I left.
Escrito cuando el autor tenía 20 años, su primera novela cuenta la historia de Clay, un estudiante de la universidad de New Hampshire que vuelve a casa en Los Angeles por Navidad. Clay regresa a Los Ángeles durante las vacaciones de Navidad. En el aeropuerto lo espera su novia Blair, por la que siente una profunda indiferencia. Un escueto mensaje de su madre sobre la mesa de la cocina y la nueva criada lo aguardan en casa. Enseguida intenta ponerse en contacto con Julian, su huidizo mejor amigo, que ha abandonado la universidad y coquetea con la heroína, pero no consigue encontrarlo. Sin nada mejor que hacer, se reincorpora a sus viejas rutinas: un frenesí de fiestas interminables, sexo sin miramientos y montañas de coca. Retrato de una sociedad en la que cada adolescente tiene su dealer y en la que las emociones se miden en fajos de billetes, Menos que cero es la primera novela del autor de American Psycho. Escrita cuando Bret Easton Ellis contaba solo veinte años, Menos que cero narra, con un estilo gélido y contundente, las andanzas de un grupo de adolescentes a la deriva en los años ochenta, y sorprendió a la crítica para convertirse inmediatamente en obra de culto. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles, who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. * The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." --The New York Times They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, underground rock clubs, and within the seamy world of L.A. after dark.
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