Ex-lover

A nameless I moves through the city on a motorbike, observing people and things with a cold, detached gaze. His motives are anger, hatred, cynicism, indifference, gnawing homesickness, and the unreal urge to make everything right again. His unequal battle against the world will not destroy him completely, however, because in existence that one indestructible comfort remains: love.

In "Ex-lover", Bret Easton Ellis's insane, violent, nihilistic American Psycho, published two years earlier, shines through in every chapter. But unlike American Psycho, Ex-lover also manages to move. Love is omnipresent, and like many of Brusselmans' novels, including his latest "Theet 77", this book is also a mother book in a sense. "Ex-lover", together with "Ex-writer" and "Ex-drummer", is a highlight in Herman Brusselmans' oeuvre.