Ebook {Epub PDF} Dorian by Will Self

Will Self's imitation, Dorian, is a modern version of Wilde's famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Set in the s and 90s, it adheres closely to Wilde's original. The names, especially of the central characters, are familiar: Dorian Gray, Basil ("Baz") Hallward, and Henry Wotton (though Sibyl Vane becomes a Herman).Author: Will Self. PENGUIN BOOKS DORIAN Will Self is the author of three short-story collections, The Quantity Theory of Insanity (winner of the Geoffrey Faber Award), Grey Area and Tough, Tough Toys for.  · Dorian. Will Self's DORIAN is a "shameless imitation" of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that reimagines the novel in the milieu of London's earlys art scene, which for liberated homosexuals were a golden era of sex, drugs and decadence before the AIDS epidemic struck later in /5.

Dorian: An Imitation by Will Self. It is and the "Royal Broodmare", as Henry Wotton calls her, is about to be married. Wotton, an uneasy homosexual and an egregious drug-addict, and his friend Baz have found a remarkable young man Dorian Gray, the epitome of male beauty. 16 years later and the Princess is dead. Dorian: An Imitation by Will Self Viking £, pp In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence. The story of a man who remains eternally. Self analysis. The opium-laced decadence of Oscar Wilde's fin de siècle England puts Will Self in mind of his own youth in Lady Diana Britain, he confesses. Was 'Dorian: An Imitation' waiting to.

Will Self. ‘Shot through with dark humour and pathos’ Big Issue In the summer of , aristocratic, drug-addicted Henry Wooten and Warhol-acolyte Baz Hallward meet Dorian Gray. Dorian is a golden adonis - perfect, pure and (so far) deliciously uncorrupted. The subject of Baz’s video installation, Cathode Narcissus, and the object of Henry’s attentions, Dorian is launched on a hedonistic binge that spans the ‘80s and '90s. Dorian: An Imitation. by Will Self. Viking £, pp In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde set the gold standard for chroniclers of decadence. The story of a man who remains eternally. Will Self's imitation, Dorian, is a modern version of Wilde's famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Set in the s and 90s, it adheres closely to Wilde's original. The names, especially of the central characters, are familiar: Dorian Gray, Basil ("Baz") Hallward, and Henry Wotton (though Sibyl Vane becomes a Herman).