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ISBN. 0-670-88996-2. Dorian, an Imitation is a British novel by Will Self. The book is a modern take on Oscar Wilde 's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The novel was originally published by Viking Press in 2002 and subsequently by Penguin in 2003. Self was originally asked to adapt the 1890 Wilde novel into a film screenplay, but this project did ...
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- 2002
Will Self wrote Dorian : An Imitation because he saw correlations. between London and New York in the late twentieth century and Wilde's fin de siècle society. It is evident that what interests Self about The Picture of Donan Gray is the way that it interprets its contemporary epoch in a manner analogous to Selfs interpretation of the late ...
Self leaves the married Wotton a worrying closet case – out of time, but still more out of his milieu. The pretence that he might corrupt Gray, rather than the reverse, isn't sustained. Fans may ...
Dorian: An imitation. Paperback – 26 Jun. 2003. "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...
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Sep 26, 2002 · Will Self. 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 early-80s art scene, which for liberated homosexuals were a golden era of sex, drugs and decadence before the AIDS epidemic struck later in the decade. It is "an age in which appearances matter ...
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His 2002 novel Dorian, an Imitation was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and his 2012 novel Umbrella was shortlisted. [7] His fiction is known for being satirical, grotesque and fantastical, and is predominantly set within his home city of London. His writing often explores mental illness, drug abuse and psychiatry.
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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 early-80s art scene, which for liberated homosexuals were a golden era of sex, drugs and decadence before the AIDS epidemic struck later in the decade. It is "an age in which appearances matter ...
