Уилл Селф

For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis lethargica, she has languished in Friern Barnet Mental Hospital. Then, in 1971, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner arrives. Audrey's experiences of a bygone Edwardian London: her socialist lover, her involvement with the Suffragists, and her wo...

In these culturally straitened times few writers would have the artistic effrontery to offer us a novel as daring, exuberant and richly dense as Umbrella. Will Self has carried the Modernist challenge into the twenty-first century, and worked a wonder John Banville Umbrella is his best book yet ... It makes new for today the lessons taught by the morals of Catch 22, Slaughterhouse Five, The Tin Dr...

When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his vacation apartment, it lands on elderly Reggie Lincoln, lounging on the balcony below. Lincoln suffers a burn, and the local authorities charge Tom with assault?i...

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Уилл Селф (р. 1961) - один из самых ярких современных английских прозаиков, "мастер эпатажа и язвительный насмешник с необычайным полетом фантазии". Критики находят в его творчестве влияние таких не похожих друг на друга авторов, как Франц Кафка, Уильям С. Берроуз, Мартин Эмис, Виктор Пелевин. С каждым прикосновением к прозе У. Селфа убеждаешься, что он еще более не прост, чем кажется с первого вз...

Уилл Селф (р. 1961) – один из самых ярких современных английских прозаиков, «мастер эпатажа и язвительный насмешник с необычайным полетом фантазии».Критики находят в его творчестве влияние таких не похожих друг на друга авторов, как Франц Кафка, Уильям С. Берроуз, Мартин Эмис, Виктор Пелевин.С каждым прикосновением к прозе У. Селфа убеждаешься, что он еще более не прост, чем кажется с первого взгл...

For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis lethargica, she has languished in Friern Barnet Mental Hospital. Then, in 1971, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner arrives. Audrey's experiences of a bygone Edwardian London: her socialist lover, her involvement with the Suffragists, and her wo...

In these culturally straitened times few writers would have the artistic effrontery to offer us a novel as daring, exuberant and richly dense as Umbrella. Will Self has carried the Modernist challenge into the twenty-first century, and worked a wonder John Banville Umbrella is his best book yet ... It makes new for today the lessons taught by the morals of Catch 22, Slaughterhouse Five, The Tin Dr...

When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his vacation apartment, it lands on elderly Reggie Lincoln, lounging on the balcony below. Lincoln suffers a burn, and the local authorities charge Tom with assault?i...