caa a22 4500 606172483 CHVBK 20210128100728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-015-0314-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-015-0314-9 Sári László University of Pécs, Hungary aut Transgression in the works of Bret Easton Ellis: the case of Imperial bedrooms [Elektronische Daten] [László Sári] The paper argues that Imperial bedrooms, Bret Easton Ellis's latest novel to date engages, among other things, with the author's own fiction on manifold levels: it does not only mark his return to the minimalist mode of writing, but effectively reclaims narrative authority from cinematic adaptations of Ellis's oeuvre, negotiates the terms of the fictional autobiographical pact set up by his previous novels, most notably Less than zero and Lunar park, and, finally, reinterprets and exposes, within the generic boundaries of the California noir teemed with existential(ist) issues, what Baudrillard called "the perfect crime” committed by contemporary media. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2015 Bret Easton Ellis nationallicence Transgressive fiction nationallicence Intermediality nationallicence Authorship nationallicence (fictional) Autobiography nationallicence California noir nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 481-490 0324-4652 42:2<481 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0314-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0314-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sári László University of Pécs, Hungary aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 481-490 0324-4652 42:2<481 2015 42 11059