Book review: ‘Shark,’ by Will Self: Post-modern novel in a psychiatric community

In a 2012 Guardian profile around the publication of “Umbrella” — the first book in a planned trilogy that includes the recently released “Shark” — British novelist Will Self said, “I don’t really write for readers.” He expressed impatience with naturalistic fiction. “I just find it dull,” he said. “You cannot capture what’s going on with that form. . . . You can create a very fine entertainment, but you can’t reach any closer to any kind of truth about what it is to exist.”

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