![]() He thought the violence in American Psycho, which was made into a film starring Christian Bale in 2000, so obviously exaggerated that it could not be taken seriously, let alone considered dangerous in real life. “Mr Ellis is a confused, sick young man with a deep hatred of women who will do anything for a fast buck.”Įllis seemed bemused at the time, and not apologetic. “This is not art,” said Tammy Bruce, president of NOW’s LA chapter. The National Organisation for Women called for a boycott of the book, and every other book from the same publisher. There had been what they called “aesthetic differences over what critics had termed its violent and women-hating content”. And does anyone remember that there was no one there for me at all? I had to pretty much go through a trial by fire on my own.”Įllis’s publisher, Vintage, had only taken on the book because its original publisher, Simon & Schuster, withdrew at the last minute. “I would not have the impulse to write that book again,” Ellis says now, during a visit to the Guardian. ![]() ![]() ![]() That way, if somebody did murder him, his parents couldn’t sue the publisher. He had to sign a declaration saying he had read them all. B ret Easton Ellis received 13 death threats before American Psycho was even published. ![]()
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