Bret Easton Ellis, the greatest living American author (2/3)

Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?

When he took his first notes for Glamorama in the 1990s, Ellis wanted to write a more personal book. However, the result was no longer in keeping with the novel's growing scope, and the author rewrote the entire story. However, with the turn-of-the-century media event behind him, Ellis still wanted to use his drafts and began writing a memoir. The press went wild: one of the greatest contemporary writers writing an autobiography? Everyone is curious.<