Dorian: An Imitation

Will Self

ISBN 10: 0802117295 / ISBN 13: 9780802117298

Published by Grove Pr, 2003

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Synopsis:

A contemporary retelling of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic finds Henry Wotton at the center of a clique that includes his friend, Hallward, and the beautiful young Dorian.

Review: 'Self's Dorian subtitles itself "an imitation", and that 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... Little is materially altered, but everything is reused - sharpened, blackened and intensified by Self's idiosyncratic remix of Wilde's combination of wit and rage, extravagant debauchery with clinical introspection...Self's reincarnation of Dorian has taken the fag ends of both an English century and an English myth and given them new, troubling and hugely entertaining life' Guardian

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dorian: An Imitation
Publisher: Grove Pr
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good