5d80d7912b 2 Here would be close to Spurn Head, a remote spit of land curving into the North Sea, on the extreme edge of England, on the fastest eroding coast in Europe. His characters invariably behave like ticcing automats, who have fallen victim to exploitative systems and to modern technologies (transistors, assembly lines and answerphones [Self 2012, 41]). Chemin faisant, linterrogation quant au statut du contemporain (avec ou sans Agamben) demeure entire. And the continuity is not organic, but mechanical.(Lawrence 163) 16Now, modernism oblige, D.H.Lawrence is frequently echoed in Umbrella: at the level of plot (Stanley, for one, has sex with the married upper-class Adeline, mirrorring the character of Mellors), but more fundamentally, at the level of the society described. 6Walking, as was already apparent in Walking to Hollywood Memories of Before the Fall, is more than a mere motion (favoured in view of its slowness as opposed to all too loathsome modes of fastness); serving as a political or ideological statement, capable of disrupting the woolly, a political consciousness imposed on us by liberalism, it carries along with it more than a fair share of hermeneutics. Swift, Graham, Waterland, London: William Heinemann, 1983.
The medical lexicon at his fingertips, one senses Self’s satisfaction at using words like “sphygmomanometer” (a blood pressure meter) and the glee with which he takes verbal disorders as subject matter, “palilalic verbigeration” and the like. The reader is snagged on moments of brilliance, and, most thrilling of all, left to make her own connections. The one is a column, a digest (of the indigestable9), a miniature, at one with Selfs abiding preoccupation with the very big and the very little, consistent with his fondness for Scale, i.e. 4Combining the potent appeal of melancholy, la W.G. Retrieved 22 June 2014. Somewhat at odds with Agambens conception of the past as having broken off from the present, Self views the contemporain, strictly speaking, as contemporeanous, co-eval with the here and now.16 Now and in England, as T.S.Eliot would argue (Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding, 215). State of England (2012), in particular, one suspects that Self is one of the very few writers to have integrated the comprehensive and in-depth lessons of Carlyle. Audrey is one of the latter, and her mind’s wanderings in her catatonic state constitute one strand of this absorbing novel. Chercher Sommaire - Document prcdent 492015 : State of Britain Writing the Body Politics Its Not All in the Mind of Britain: Will Selfs Umbrella Cest pas tout dans la tte de la Grande-Bretagne: Umbrella de Will Self Marc Pore Rsum Index Plan Texte Bibliographie Notes Citation Auteur Rsums Franais English Larticle se propose dtudier le rapport entretenu par Will Self, lauteur dUmbrella (2012) la Condition of England Question, autrement dit la nature de sa prise en charge, par le biais de la fiction, de la pathologie qui lui parat affecter le corps social. London: Telegraph Newspaper.
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