In 'American psycho', Bret Easton Ellis explores the depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980's Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
