The Killing Cure: Popular Culture and Postmodern Madness inOnde andará Dulce Veiga?andAmerican Psycho

Through a comparison of Caio Fernando Abreu’s Onde andará Dulce Veiga? and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, this article argues that a reconsideration of popular culture and its relationship with postmodernism needs to be addressed. By using Baudrillard’s concept of simulation to undermine commonly held views about postmodern madness, one encounters a more complex understanding of how, and why, characters are constantly searching for a cure.