«Hemos entrado en una peligrosa suerte de totalitarismo que en realidad aborrece la libre expresi n y castiga a la gente por mostrarse tal cual es. Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis cre a Patrick Bateman, el c lebre ejecutivo de Wall Street que, en la obra maestra American Psycho, mejor describi los delirios de toda una poca. Despu s de una brillante carrera novel stica, el enfant terrible de la literatura norteamericana vuelve a la carga con su aclamado primer libro de no ficci n: una autobiograf a que recorre su infancia, su pol mica carrera y las referencias literarias, cinematogr ficas y de la cultura popular de los setenta y los ochenta que marcaron su vida. Pero Bret Easton Ellis no se queda en el pasado, y lleva a cabo un an lisis perspicaz y totalmente libre de autocensura de la sociedad del presente, pregunt ndose qu demonios ha ocurrido en estas ltimas cuatro d cadas.

Blanco es una defensa del derecho a la libertad de expresi n y una cr tica a la dictadura del neopuritanismo, a la hipersensibilidad millennial y a lo pol ticamente correcto en la era de las redes sociales. Bret Easton Ellis reivindica el humor y la s tira como herramientas de provocaci n y, por encima de todo, reclama una libertad que se desvanece. Las agudas reflexiones que pone sobre la mesa vienen a revolucionar la actualidad con una honestidad provocadora y corrosiva.

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Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear.

White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke" cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, White is a clarion call for freedom of speech and artistic freedom.

"The central tension in Ellis's art--or his life, for that matter--is that while his] aesthetic is the cool reserve of his native California, detachment over ideology, he can't stop generating heat.... He's hard-wired to break furniture."--Karen Heller, The Washington Post

"Sweating with rage . . . humming with paranoia."--Anna Leszkiewicz, The Guardian

"Snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow's nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage . . . a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed. It's all here. Rants about Trump derangement syndrome; MSNBC; #MeToo; safe spaces."--Bari Weiss, The New York Times