Umbrella (novel)
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| Author | Will Self |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Publication date |
United Kingdom 16 August 2012 United States of America 8 January 2013 |
| Pages | 416pp |
| ISBN | 1408820145 |
| Preceded by | The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker |
Umbrella is the ninth novel by Will Self, published in 2012.
It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2012, Will Self's first nomination.[1]
Content
The stream-of-consciousness novel tells the story of a psychiatrist Zack Busner and his treatment of a patient at Friern Hospital who has encephalitis lethargica. The patient, Audrey De'Ath, has two brothers whose days fighting in the First World War are interwoven into her own story.
Reviews
Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Sheena Joughlin wrote...
Every experience is filtered through another, or infiltrated by it. At times, this Self-imposed exile from any “fixed regard”, threatens the narrative’s sanity, and its readability, but that is the point. Whether Umbrella takes experimental fiction beyond the magnificent cul-de-sac into which Joyce steered it is doubtful. But this fresh reminder of the potential of finding new selves – to be and to write with – is extraordinary.[2]
Sam Leith, writing for The Observer wrote...
The antic gurgles of laughter you find in Self's earlier work are few and far between. In their place, though, is a sustained depth and seriousness, and an ambition of technique that I haven't seen in him before. I don't mean to put you off. Umbrella is old-school modernism. It isn't supposed to be a breeze. But it is, to use the literary critical term of art, kind of amazing. To frame it in terms of the film Gremlins, if you fed Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child after midnight, it might come out looking a bit like Umbrella[3]
References
- ↑ Booker Prize 2012: Hilary Mantel could become first British writer to win the literary prize twice after Bring up the Bodies makes shortlist The Independent
- ↑ Joughlin, Sheena (2012-08-30). "Umbrella by Will Self: review". London: Telegraph Newspaper. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
- ↑ Leith, Sam (2012-08-19). "Umbrella by Will Self – review". London: The Observer. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
External links
- Official Will Self site
- notes by will self on music in the novel
- Will Self at the Internet Movie Database
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