Transgressive fiction is mainly characterized as “trash literature”, “trash”, “blank literature” because in the description context of value shifts society has specific emotional and ethical registers that go beyond the usual boundaries of literary creativity. Keywords: B E Ellis’s idiosyncrasy consumer society marginal topics novel “American Psycho” transgressive fiction “trash literature” Introduction The literary analysis of the novel “American Psycho” reveals minimalism and dynamism of writing, as well as narrative non-linearity which is defined, on the one hand, as B. E. Ellis's idiosyncrasy, and on the other hand, as a distinguished style of transgressive fiction. Thus, the research has both literary and philosophical significance. Analyzing the artistic means of the novel “American Psycho”, the authors conclude that their stylistic role equals the role of semantic content, which affects the perception of this type of literature as satire, using specific forms to expose and ridicule people's vices, is designed to draw readers' attention to the essence of the described events and consider the roots of the consumer society’s immorality. According to the authors, fixing on marginal topics is an attempt to cross the boundaries of social, moral, and sexual structures aimed at provoking and “invigorating” the established norms. The article is an attempt at a literary and aesthetic analysis of the transgression phenomenon in B. E. Ellis’s prose, which occupies a significant place in the development of American transgressive fiction abounding in monstrously frightening scenes of violence and cruelty.

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