La presencia del absurdo existencial en "Less than Zero" de Bret Easton Ellis

In his first novel Less than Zero (1985), American writer Bret Easton Ellis raises the question of human existence through the portrayal of a young generation who, being able to have it all, do not feel capable of finding their own way in life and are leading to their own destruction. This article tries to analize the existing link between the representation of the American culture in the eighties depicted by Ellis and the experiences on the absurd offered by Camus in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) and his novel The Stranger (1942). Through the experiences that Ellis’ main character comes through in the novel, the American writer brings into his fiction the treatment of the absurd as was already formulated by Camus with the aim of underlining the contradictions and difficulties contemporary human beings are to face.