Violence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Self's My Idea of Fun

Will Self, who used to be a long-time heroin addict and diagnosed schizophrenic, has called his debut novel My Idea of Fun a cautionary tale. Drawing on Julia Kristeva's theory of the borderline personality, Lay argues that the narrative constitutes what could be called a "borderline narra...

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Published in:Genus : gender in modern culture 2007-01, Vol.9, p.291
Main Author: Lay, Frank
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Literary criticism
Psychology
Self, Will
Violence
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Summary:Will Self, who used to be a long-time heroin addict and diagnosed schizophrenic, has called his debut novel My Idea of Fun a cautionary tale. Drawing on Julia Kristeva's theory of the borderline personality, Lay argues that the narrative constitutes what could be called a "borderline narrative", a stylistic remodelling of the transgression of mental boundaries.
ISSN:1568-1602