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The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20082009-02-23
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The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane. «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision.
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Walking to Hollywood
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych — obsessive, satirical, elegiac — in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour. 'Very Little' is ostensibly the account of a curative journey to Canada and the USA, but in fact the record of a nematode's progress, as the worm of obsession — with scale and packing and the 'stuff' of our lives — bores through a mind in extremesis. 'Walking to Hollywood' is an extreme satire on celebrity, in which the narrator believes that everyone he meets is played by a famous actor, and that only he can solve the mystery of who murdered the movies. 'Spurn Head' leads Self to a tormented sojourn with a madman whose house is sliding over the edge of a cliff, to a game of checkers with Death, and finally to an encounter with one of Swift's immortal Struldbruggs and a march through a tear in time itself. In Walking to Hollywood Will Self pushes memoir to the limits of invention.
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How the Dead Live
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been noticeably mellowed by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston — London's borough for those no longer troubled by breathing — but if anything her temperament has worsened. Finding it hard to deal with the (enforced) company of a calcified, pop-obsessed fetus, her dead, foul mouthed son and three gruesome creatures made of her own unwanted fat, she must find something to do with her time. So how do the dead live? And what happens when they stop being dead?
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The Butt
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despite Brodzinski's liberal attitudes and good intentions, the local authorities treat his action as an assault. Soon the full weight of the courts and tribal custom is brought to bear. What follows is a journey through a fantastically distorted world, a country that is part Australia, part Iraq and part the heart of a distinctively modern darkness.
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My Idea of Fun
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20102009-09-30
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When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as 'The Fat Controller' — a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian' s mental illness. As Ian's idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity and everything becomes admissable.
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The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20102011-03-19
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What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And, what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, «The Book of Dave» is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.
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Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20102010-12-07
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'As good as anything he has written... one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' — «Financial Times». 'Self's enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of dueling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh, but you also flinch' — «Scotsman». 'A destabilizing, funny, abundantly Gothic tour de force' — «Guardian».
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Liver: and Other Stories
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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A portrayal of egos, appetites and addictions. It presents an examination of lives out of control and beyond saving by the pre-eminent chronicler of our neuroses and our times.
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Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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'Self at his most nihilistic and funny; you'll laugh and flinch at the same time' — «Guardian». 'Self has turned out a hilarious collection, with the requisite touch of disorientation. «Flytopia», the story about a man who suddenly finds flies more lovable than his girlfriend, follows the Kafkaesque line Self opened with his recent novel «Great Apes» — man as animal... «Story for Europe», about a two-year-old north Londoner who suddenly starts speaking business German, is comic genius' — «New Statesman». 'When Will Self wants to step outside his cultivated amoral threshold and shock us into rage, the effect can be profound. This is Self's third short-story collection and like all the best books it delivers what its title promises... an awesome London Dungeon of a collection... Self is a massive talent' — «Time Out».
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