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Psychogeography [Hardcover]

Will Self , Ralph Steadman
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; First Edition edition (22 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747590338
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747590330
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.4 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Brilliantly original, Will Self is one of those rare writers whose imaginations change for ever the way we see the world' JG Ballard 'Steadman has always been one of my heroes.' Raymond Briggs

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Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time the very best of their "Psychogeography" columns for the "Independent". The introduction, 'Walking to New York', is both a prelude to the verbal and visual essays that make up this extraordinary collaboration, and a revealing exploration of the split in Self's Jewish American British psyche and its relationship to the political geography of the post 9/11 world. Ranging from the Scottish Highlands to Istanbul and from Morocco to Ohio, Will Self's engaging and disturbing vision is perfectly counter pointed by Ralph Steadman's edgy and beautiful artwork.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mischievous and diverse as ever..., 9 Dec 2011
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Paul Harris (near Brecon, Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Psychogeography (Hardcover)
If you don't like Will Self's take on modern life, you probably won't like this. If however, like me, you do appreciate his dry wit and well crafted writing style, then you will almost certainly enjoy this collection. A seemingly random arrangement of his column in The Independent newspaper is brilliantly complemented by the always excellent Ralph Steadman's illustrations.

Self writes on all manner of subjects from the mundane to the profound. Infused with his inimitable sardonic sense of humour and mischief, these essays were for me the perfect length to get just the right flavour of whatever, or wherever, he was talking about or exploring. In places as diverse as Rio de Janeiro, The Orkney Isles, India, Iowa, and English coastal nuclear power stations, he takes you with him as he uncovers little nuggets of the 21st century world we live in.

The extra length introductory essay - Walking To New York - is a real treat as Self travels the usually unconsidered hinterlands of south and west London on his way to first Heathrow Airport, and then from JFK across Long Island over to Manhattan. A very unusual and enjoyable read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars short review of Pyschogeography, 16 Sep 2011
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This review is from: Psychogeography (Hardcover)
Having lived abroad for most of the period 1990-2008, I missed a great deal of what was going on in England during the 90s, culturally speaking. I missed, for example, the rise and rise of Will Self, cartoonist and writer extraordinaire. On the strength of his short story collection Tough Tough Toys, which was excellent in my opinion, I thought I'd give Pyschogeography,another side of W.S., a go.

Bit disappointing actually: although some of the pieces in this book were quite engaging--I liked the title piece, Walking to New York, for example--the mish-mash of "memories, dreams and reflections", can get a bit tiresome. I mean anywhere could also be the real Empty Quarter couldn't it, if you thus conveniently construe it. Self shows good mastery of narrative in his short stories, but his non-fiction can meander in an alarmingly undisciplined way, and in the end I found myself flicking through the book rather than reading it. There is no doubt that Self is an original and pleasingly caustic writer, and his vocabulary flashes like a knife on every page. Also, Steadman's illustrations perfectly compliment the text--both he and Self are Picasso-like: brilliantly inventive and imaginative within a limited range. Perhaps this is why, in spite of the large geographical parameters of the book, the territory seems rather small in the end.

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4.0 out of 5 stars More quality writing from Will Self, 9 July 2011
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Part memoir, part travelogue, this book displays all the qualities you'd expect from Will Self. As is his wont, he mixes the high brow with the demotic, his sentences are beautifully written and there is some laugh-out-loud humour. Naturally, one needs a dictionary to hand at times, but that's no bad thing.
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