/lit/ - Literature

>>6047627
Impressive, let's see Paul Allen's second pair of dubs.

Impressive, let's see Paul Allen's dubs.

It’s not that I’m shocked (although I do feel a degree of mumsy disappointment at the lovely Matt Smith taking on the role of Patrick Bateman in last year’s musical based on the book). If anything, I suspect more readers feel unsettled by criticisms of the work than by the work itself. Welsh contends that American Psycho “offers no easy resolutions […] no comforting knowledge […] no […] hiding place for the reader”. I would argue that it does, in the most conservative, unimaginative way possible: watch some women being tortured. When a woman is raped, her fingers nail gunned to the floor, her tongue cut out and thrown to the wall, all while she is still conscious, it is a form of release for the reader. It alleviates the trauma of engaging with a satire on the dog-eat-dog world western men have created for themselves. Watching women die, at pleasingly regular intervals, is the reward for having had to engage with something really traumatic, something that calls into question your own self-esteem and sense of purpose. Take a break while a man sticks his cock into the mouth of the woman he’s just decapitated. Go on, it’s the least you deserve. In an interview Easton Ellis describes how “a lot of [the work] had to do with my frustration with having to become an adult and what it meant to be an adult male in American society”. American society might be fragile and greedy, but the male ego is more so. It’s not surprising that mostly male readers are too frightened to engage with the idea that when American Psycho “holds a hyper-real, satirical mirror up to our faces” it is not simply reflecting, in a reassuringly vague fashion, “the savage society we’ve created” but their own weakness and moral immaturity.

>>5317208
Hi there friend,

I see you are trying to make a funny thread using a gif which contains the particularly impressive buzzword "euphoric". I commend your efforts however it should be noted that in order to maximise the humour of such a thread the OP (original post/er) should use meme arrows. This makes the text therein green and of course, as I'm sure you can imagine, vastly more humorous. Observe:

>You don't need the Bible to understand Western literature.

I hope this helps you make much more hilarious and non shit-posty posts in the future.

Sincerely, Patrick Bateman
Senior memologist