Will Self writes literary fiction, satire and essays about addiction, urban life, psychiatry, consumer culture and people experiencing reality from unstable angles. Dorian reworks Oscar Wilde’s novel through late twentieth-century London and the AIDS crisis, while Great Apes begins with an artist waking in a world where chimpanzees dominate society and humans are treated as animals. Umbrella moves through institutional psychiatry, modernism and twentieth-century history in dense, largely continuous prose. Self’s short fiction and essays are equally interested in cities, drugs and social absurdity. His writing is linguistically elaborate, comic and deliberately demanding. He suits readers of British literary satire, experimental fiction, dystopian thought experiments and psychologically disruptive narratives. Read more Less
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