WHITE The tyranny of identity in the modern age

WHITE

The tyranny of identity in the modern age.

His "collection of thoughts". Brett Easton Ellis about the pathogens of modern culture that overwhelms us

Combining personal introspection with scathing social commentary, the first non-fiction work of Bret Easton Ellis it is a dynamic, "warlike" quasi-essay on the failures and ignorance of our digital age on the one hand, and nominal freedom of speech on the other.

With the same originality that characterizes his imagination, Ellis it completely deconstructs the dominant "goods" of the social media age, starting with the dangerous cult of likes and reaching the raw denunciation of self-censorship – and especially that done in the hope of acceptance – through the bold perspective of a life dedicated to authenticity.

Provocative, persistent and funny, The White. The tyranny of identity in the modern age it illuminates not only what is visible on the shiny and untouched surface of things, but also the inexorable truths that lie beneath.

THE Bret Easton Ellis, the "bad boy" of American prose, was born in Los Angeles in 1964. His books have been translated into 27 languages and four of them have been made into films. Many call him a nihilist, he describes himself as a moralist. The White. The tyranny of identity in modern times, his latest – and first non-fiction – work, was published in English in April 2019.

All his previous books will also be re-released by Oxy publications.