Author: Will Self

Cites

• James Joyce (1)
  • IN: Umbrella (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella.
    FROM: Ulysses, (1922), Novel, Ireland
• W.Y. Evans-Wentz (1)
  • IN: How the Dead Live (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As though in an initiatory mystery play, the actors for each day of the bardo come on to the mind stage of the deceased, who is their sole spectator; and their director is karma.
    FROM: Preface to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, (1927), Book, US
• Cicero (1)
  • IN: Great Apes (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: An ape, a most ill-favoured beast. / How like us in all the rest?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Franz Kafka (1)
  • IN: Great Apes (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When I come home late at night from banquets, form social gatherings...
    FROM: A Report to the Academy, (1917), Short story, Czech Republic
• Schopenhauer (1)
  • IN: Dorian (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is an unconscious appositeness in the use of the word person to designate the human individual...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Italo Svevo (1)
  • IN: The Butt (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Who knows, whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined?...
    FROM: Confessions of Zeno, (1923), Novel, Italy
• Marcel Duchamp (1)
  • IN: Shark (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: D’ailleurs, c’est toujours les autres qui meurent
    FROM: NULL, (1968), Epitaph, France
• R. D. Laing (1)
  • IN: Phone (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: These arabeques that mysteriously embody mathematical truths only glimpsed by a very few -- how beautiful, how exquisite -- no matter that they were the threshing and thrashing of a drowning man.
    FROM: The Politics of Experience, (1967), Book, UK
• Alexander Pope (1)
  • IN: Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
    FROM: Essay on Man, I, 87-90, (1734), Essay, UK
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life is a dream that keeps me from sleeping
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland