The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Autor Will Selfen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2013
What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers.
In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology—and literature—will never be the same.
In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology—and literature—will never be the same.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780802121462
ISBN-10: 0802121462
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Colecția Grove Press
ISBN-10: 0802121462
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Colecția Grove Press
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Notă biografică
Will Self is the author of the Booker-shortlisted Umbrella, as well as six short-story collections, a book of novellas, eight novels, and six collections of journalism. He lives in London.
Caracteristici
Will Self's brilliantly twisted, assured debut - winner of the 1993 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Recenzii
'If a manic J. G. Ballard and a depressive David Lodge got together, they might produce something like The Quantity Theory of Insanity. But Will Self's world is all his own'
'This hilarious black satire seethes with wonderfully weird ideas and bizarre images, written with a delicate precision'
'Will Self's The Quantity Theory of Insanity is as disturbing as satire ought to be and these days seldom is. Also it is unashamedly funny as well as chilling, presented with an air of cunning repose'
'Self savages any human institution or being that smacks of ponderosity. And he writes like a devil'
'This hilarious black satire seethes with wonderfully weird ideas and bizarre images, written with a delicate precision'
'Will Self's The Quantity Theory of Insanity is as disturbing as satire ought to be and these days seldom is. Also it is unashamedly funny as well as chilling, presented with an air of cunning repose'
'Self savages any human institution or being that smacks of ponderosity. And he writes like a devil'
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The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane ...The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision
The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane ...The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision