The author of American Psycho says his controversial novel 'wouldn't be published today' because it would be 'too problematic.'īret Easton Ellis, 57, from Los Angeles, published American Psycho in 1991 and it wasn't long before the novel - which focuses on psychopathic Wall Street banker Patrick Bateman who picks up women and then butchers them after sex - was slammed by feminists across the globe.įocusing on the book's graphic descriptions of sexual violence, one feminist campaigner branded it a 'how-to novel on the torture and dismemberment of women,' while authors criticized it as nothing more than misogynistic pornography. American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis (pictured in 2013), from Los Angeles, says his novel 'wouldn't be published today' because it's 'too problematic' for feminists
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