American Psycho would not be published today

Bret Easton Ellis said his American Psycho book would not be released today.

His novel about serial killer and investment banker Patrick Bateman, which was later turned into a film starring Christian Bale, was released in 1991 after being rejected by his first publisher.

The book was Ellis' third offer after his debut, Less Than Zero, which made him famous at 21, and mentioned Donald Trump 40 times.

The author, whose last book is called White, told The Observer: "This book would not be published now.

"I mean, nobody wanted to publish it then. Very few people have come forward. I've just been lucky.

"But what's interesting is that I did not know, before I gathered the Whites, how much I'm haunted by American Psycho, I can not escape Patrick Bateman.

"I mean, it was prescient, and not just because of Trump."

Ellis describes the president as an "idiot" and a "grotesque" and is irritated that he has been described as an apologist for him.

He said, "Molly Jong-Fast, the daughter of Erica Jong, wrote this piece in the Daily Beast where she asked: How did he turn into his ultra-conservative Maga cap?

"These people were brought up to think that their reactions to things were perfectly correct and that the other side was not only totally wrong, but also immoral, sexist and racist.

"All my book says is, let's talk. But of course, this has already been totalized in America. My ability to trigger millennia is senseless. "

Ellis had previously called the W generation a "Wuss generation" and he told the newspaper, "What I noticed is a kind of generation Y helplessness.

"I only realized it recently, but I was alone – my parents were narcissistic baby boomers, more interested in themselves than us.

"It's not that they did not love us, but they were very excited about their own lives.

"I remember having floated alone. I had to grow myself. I had to understand things for myself.

"I had help. I'm not saying that I did not do it. But there is certainly no overprotective bubble in which so many of my friends have raised their children. "

– Press Association