Will Self: Umbrella

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Self’s striking novel about loss, language, and perception after the First World War -- and a bold departure from the satirical mode he is best known for.

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0:59.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblad, and this is Bookworm. Today it's my great pleasure and honor to talk to Wolf Self about his new book, Umbrella.
1:05.0	A book that attempts to bring us to an awareness of how complex literature can be and it can be complex
1:16.0	because life is complex and life can be misinterpreted so can literature so can
1:23.6	people this is a book about perception and misinterpretation and memory and loss.
1:31.0	And as a result, it begins, I think, with an immediate joke in its title umbrella.
1:38.6	Because there is a very famous three-syllable book in the English language whose title begins with a U, and that
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