Our ideas, our model of 'reality' are creating this 'reality', simulating it. So it is verifiable to say that our whole human experience is indeed just a simulation of'reality', a hyperreality in Baudrillards words, because anything like reality is relevant to understand life, but will never be reality. He adds that is is impossible to rediscover the absolute level of the 'real' just like it is impossible to stage an illusion, because the same signs exist for the 'real' and for the simulation of the 'real' (Baudrillard 2001:180-181). This means that a sign exchanges for meaning and the system will only be a simulacrum that “masks the absence of a basic reality.”(Baudrillard 2001:170-173). Furthermore, for him simulation begins with an artificial system of signs, which is not to be imitated, but substituted for the real itself.
One implies a presence, the other an absence.” (Baudrillard 2001:170) and we can find a similar idea with Jean-Paul Sartre, but we will approach this later in chapter 3. He defines simulation as “ to feign to have what one hasn't. In Simulacra and Simulations Baudrillard argues that simulation generates a hyperreal, that does not refer to reality anymore: “It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.” (Baudrillard 2001:169). With the terms 'simulacra' and 'hyperreality', we approach the territory of Jean Baudrillard. This paper will show that an 'in-between' is possible an 'in-between' between “pornographic gore” and “serious postmodern literature” - and maybe the two phrases do not contradict each other so much as assumed. How can a novel be a how-to-torture, but also a book of serious ambition? (Baelo-Allue 2011:1) Through conversations and media, a Clay becomes visible, who seeks for more beyond the surface and shallowness and although the novel does not seem to follow a red thread, it suggests that Ellis as an author of 'blank fiction' is well aware of what he is doing with Less Than Zero. With the help of Jean Baudrillard's simulation theory and Sartre's theory of Being and Nothingness, which will be introduced before analyzing the novel, this paper will address Clays world of simulacra and Nothingness and argue for this being the purpose of the novel creating a meaningless world. Although criticized for Ellis's straight nihilism, integrating his own celebrity persona into his art and creating a universe of immature characters who seem to grow older but without any growing effect, it is questionable, if Less Than Zero is only just that - a world inhabited by rich and shallow characters without any purpose.
Experiencing several parties, concerts, affairs and drugs with his old friends, Clay explores the apathy, boredom and alienation from his old life. In the novel we follow Clay, the 18-year-old protagonist and student at Camden College in New Hampshire, coming back to Los Angeles for Christmas break. Writers of postmodern fiction, also called 'Blank Fiction', elegantly use a minimalist plot with flat characters in a simple style and as validated member of the 'Brat Pack', Ellis combines urban life, violence, drugs and consumerism. First published in 1985 when he was 21 and still at Bennington College, Ellis is now considered as the 'celebrity author' of the postmodern era, using the minimalist style for which the novel became famous. Bret Easton Ellis set a milestone for a generation, who needed a voice. Introduction - “I don’t have anything to lose.” Conclusion - “I wait for something to happen.
Baudrillard: Simulacra and the HyperrealĦ. Introduction - “I don't have anything to lose.”Ģ.
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