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| - Glamorama is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998.
Set in the mid-1990s the novel begins in New York City, following a hip, 27-year-old model and nightclub manager Victor Ward, who spends his days and nights organizing parties and worrying whether A-list celebrities will turn up. Eventually he is given a task by a mysterious diplomat named F. Fred Palakon, which involves going to London to search for one of Ward's ex-girlfriends who has gone missing. Things begin to take a worrying turn as Ward gets mixed up with a group of terrorists in Paris.
As American Psycho was a satire of capitalism and consumerism, Glamorama is a satire of society's obsession with celebrities and beauty; it features a great deal of violence, black humor and surrealism. One theme is the parallel between the fear of the unlikely, horrible fate of being killed by terrorists and the fear of the extremely likely, rather less horrible fate of being unable to live up to the beauty of professional models. Both fears are fed by the media.
The novel keeps up Ellis's tradition of using characters from previous novels. Lauren Hynde and Bertrand Ripleis both return from The Rules of Attraction to play major roles in the novel. There are cameos by Mitchell Allen, Sean Bateman and Patrick Bateman, some of them only in reference and others where the character is present in the scene. Alison Poole also returns: Ellis first used her in American Psycho, but she originally appeared in Jay McInerney's novel, Story of My Life. Victor Ward himself had a relatively minor role in The Rules of Attraction, in which he was the absentee boyfriend of Lauren Hynde.
A movie adaptation is planned but although it was originally scheduled for release in 2004, it has been delayed.
Whilst the first half primarily introduces the characters and sets the scene, the second-half of Glamorama, when the action shifts from New York to London and then Paris, contains a great deal of extreme violence, in particular two gruesome torture sequences that feature castration and electrocution. There are also many bomb attacks, with detailed descriptions of men, women and children being blown apart, burned alive and mutilated.
The terrorists are supermodels or ex-supermodels of both sexes and though they appear to have a leader it is apparent that they get their orders and their resources from external backers who are never seen. The supermodels are presented as vacuous, arrogant and self-centered, these traits presumably being why they were recruited for terrorism.
To add to the often surreal nature of the second-half of the novel, the motives and ideology of the terrorists are never revealed. There are clues that it relates to the Middle East and that it may be linked to Victor Ward's father, who is a powerful U.S. Senator and is tipped as a Presidential Candidate.
The novel switches back and forth between first-person narration (by Ward) and third-person. (en)
- Glamorama est un roman de fiction écrit par Bret Easton Ellis, publié en 1999.
Il narre l'histoire d'un jeune modèle américain, Victor Ward, entraîné malgré lui dans un complot mêlant politique et terrorisme entre New-York et l'Europe.
Glamorama est le roman de Bret Easton Ellis qui pousse le plus loin l'aspect schizophrénique et paranoïaque caractéristique de l'auteur. (fr)
- Pubblicato nel 1998 in America per la casa editrice Knopf, Glamorama è il quarto romanzo di Bret Easton Ellis dopo Meno di zero, 1985; Le regole dell'attrazione, 1987; American Psycho, 1990, ciascuno dei quali è divenuto un film). In Italia l'opera è edita da Einaudi, nella traduzione di Katia Bagnoli. Si tratta del libro più lungo dello scrittore losangelino e di quello dalla gestazione più lunga: sette anni. (it)
- Glamorama är en roman av Bret Easton Ellis som handlar om en manlig fotomodell, Victor Ward, i New York vars , från början, stillsamma liv i lyx plötsligt får en dramatisk vändning. Många kända personer har mindre roller i denna historia.
Romanen har uppmärksammats för att ha extremt explicita scener av olika slag.
Glamorama skulle även filmatiseras med bl.a Kip Pardue och Estella Warren i huvudrollerna och med Roger Avary som regissör, denna produktion lades dock ner. (sv)
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| - Glamorama is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998. (en)
- Glamorama est un roman de fiction écrit par Bret Easton Ellis, publié en 1999. (fr)
- Pubblicato nel 1998 in America per la casa editrice Knopf, Glamorama è il quarto romanzo di Bret Easton Ellis dopo Meno di zero, 1985; Le regole dell'attrazione, 1987; American Psycho, 1990, ciascuno dei quali è divenuto un film). In Italia l'opera è edita da Einaudi, nella traduzione di Katia Bagnoli. Si tratta del libro più lungo dello scrittore losangelino e di quello dalla gestazione più lunga: sette anni. (it)
- Glamorama är en roman av Bret Easton Ellis som handlar om en manlig fotomodell, Victor Ward, i New York vars , från början, stillsamma liv i lyx plötsligt får en dramatisk vändning. Många kända personer har mindre roller i denna historia. Romanen har uppmärksammats för att ha extremt explicita scener av olika slag. (sv)
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