Will Self Reihenfolge der Bücher

Set in 1950s America, the story follows Elaine as she grapples with her dissatisfaction in a seemingly perfect life with her Ivy League husband and child. Standing by her mailbox, she questions her choices and ultimately seeks freedom through a reckless affair. This decision leads to the unraveling of her marriage and forces her to confront the consequences of her actions, exploring themes of identity, desire, and the constraints of societal expectations.

Exploring the intricacies of writing and literature, this collection of essays showcases Will Self's unique voice and sharp wit. Celebrated as a bold and engaging novelist, he offers insightful reflections that challenge conventional perspectives on reading. Each piece invites readers to reconsider their relationship with literature, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in the art of storytelling and the written word.

"From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature. From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The Guardian, Will Self's Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature. Self takes us with him: from the foibles of his typewriter repairman to the irradiated exclusion zone of Chernobyl, to the Australian outback, and to literary forms past and future. With his characteristic intellectual brio, Self aims his inimitable eye at titans of literature like Woolf, Kafka, Orwell, and Conrad. He writes movingly on W. G. Sebald's childhood in Germany and provocatively describes the elevation of William S. Burroughs's Junky from shocking pulp novel to beloved cult classic. Self also expands on his regular column in Literary Hub to ask readers how, what, and ultimately why we should read in an ever-changing world. Whether he is writing on the rise of the bookshelf as an item of furniture in the nineteenth century or on the impossibility of Googling his own name in a world lived online, Self's trademark intoxicating prose and mordant, energetic humor infuse every piece. A book that examines how the human stream of consciousness flows into and out of literature, Why Read will satisfy both old and new readers of this icon of contemporary literature"-- Provided by publisher

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.

Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on the spot, havering on the threshold between the bedroom and the dying one... all the while cradling the plastic leech of the syringe in the crook of his arm. Oscillating furiously, and, as he presses the plunger home a touch more... and more, he hears it again and again- Waaaste nooot, waaant nooot..! whooshing into and out of him, while the blackness wells up at the periphery of his vision, and his hackneyed heart begins to beat out weirdly arrhythmic drum fills - even hitting the occasional rim-shot on his resonating rib cage. He waits, paralysed, acutely conscious, that were he simply to press his thumb right home, it'll be a cartoonish death- That's all folks! as the aperture screws shut forever.

“How was your day?” is a special commissioned piece of work from The Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2017.

Für den 78jährigen Zachary Busner, seines Zeichens Psychiater und gealtertes und leicht dementes Familienoberhaupt, bedeutet sein Smartphone die Anbindung an eine Welt, die nicht mehr ganz die seine ist – und zugleich die physische Loslösung von dieser. Den MI6-Agenten Jonathan De’Ath treiben unterdessen ganz eigene Smartphone-Sorgen um, schließlich sind auf seinem Gerät Nachrichten seines heimlichen Langzeitgeliebten gespeichert, einem Panzerkommandanten, der im Irak im Einsatz ist. Im dritten Teil seiner Jahrhunderttrilogie, die mit Regenschirm und Shark fulminant begann, erzählt Will Self von einer Familie, die aller Kommunikation zum Trotz im Chaos zu versinken droht; er erzählt vom Schrecken des modernen Kriegs und vom Ende der Privatheit und zeichnet so ein schrecklich amüsantes Porträt unserer Zeit. „Absolut packend, ja süchtig machend. Ein Must-read.“ Daily Mail

London's underground railways are an expression of the spread and diversity of the most international of capitals. Indeed, for many Londoners the subterranean network is the very essence of the city, its arteries carrying the pulse of urban life from the heart of the metropolis out to its farthest extremities. How to capture that breadth in one work of art? How to celebrate a single system while also reflecting the millions of lives that it has transported over the past century and a half? That was the challenge facing Turner Prizewinning artist Mark Wallinger. His response was to create a vast, permanent work of public art across the entire network, layered with rich cultural and historical references. This book provides a record of this extraordinary project

Mai 1970: In der experimentellen psychiatrischen Kommune des Psychiaters Zack Busner in London treffen Menschen und Traumata aus dem Pazifikkrieg aufeinander: ein Überlebender des von den Japanern torpedierten Kriegsschiffes USS Indianapolis, das kurz zuvor die für Hiroshima bestimmte Atombombe transportiert hat, und ein britischer Beobachter, der an Bord des Bombers den Abwurf miterlebt hat. Gemeinsam mit Zack Busner begeben sich die Patienten auf einen LSD-Trip, in dem die Grenzen zwischen Wahn und Wirklichkeit endgültig zerfließen. Der Blutrausch der Haie, die beinahe die gesamte Schiffsmannschaft der USS Indianapolis verschlingen, und der Blick auf die grauenhafte Schönheit des Atompilzes über Hiroshima aus dem Bomber - in beiden Ereignissen kristallisiert sich eine neue Dimension des Krieges, die die Überlebenden in das treibt, was die Gesellschaft als Wahn tituliert. Zack Busner hat den Verdacht, dass nur seine Patienten den Irrsinn einer Welt, in der Massenvernichtung technologisch perfektioniert ist, durchschauen …