Dorian
Will Self"Self's Dorian subtitles itself "an imitation", and that it is exactly what it is, in the full Wildean sense. It flatters its original by taking both subject and style entirely seriously. The locations, characters, plot and epigrams are all transposed from the 1890s to the 1990s... Little is materially altered, but everything is reused - sharpened, blackened and intensified by Self's idiosyncratic remix of Wilde's combination of wit and rage, extravagant debauchery with clinical introspection...Self's reincarnation of Dorian has taken the fag ends of both an English century and an English myth and given them new, troubling and hugely entertaining life." Guardian
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Year:
2014
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Language:
english
ISBN 13:
9780141960975
ISBN:
AE35AE9A-D290-4684-9427-166C3C7AD4F5
File:
EPUB, 349 KB
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english, 2014