Will Self’s “Garden of Unearthly Delights”: The Antihero and the City in Dorian: An Imitation

Authors

  • Arijana Luburić-Cvijanović
  • Viktorija Krombholc

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2021.13.9

Keywords:

antihero, city, Dorian: An Imitation, satire, transgressive fiction, Will Self

Abstract

Will Self’s Dorian: An Imitation recasts the decadence and wit of Oscar Wilde’s narrative as the full-blown excess of image-obsessed contemporary Britain riddled with drugs, AIDS, and terminal boredom. Brutal satire and imagery of death, war, disease, and destruction align the novel with the contemporary genre of transgressive fiction which has established a new satiric tradition. The aim of this article is to analyse Self’s novel within that tradition by examining the antihero as the epitome of his age and the city as the transgressive locus terribilis.

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Published

2021-12-21

How to Cite

Luburić-Cvijanović, A., & Krombholc, V. . (2021). Will Self’s “Garden of Unearthly Delights”: The Antihero and the City in Dorian: An Imitation. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 13(1), 207–228. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2021.13.9

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021): BELLS - volume 13

Section

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

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