Self projected London : la reinvenzione di Londra secondo Will Self

Built on two intertwined stories, one set in the recent past and the other portraying a distant future, The Book of Dave articulates the dystopian paradigm grounding it in the complex psychology of the protagonist. Dave Rudman, a London cabbie ranting about the misery of his life and broken marriage, and experiencing a progressive descent in the pit of depression and psychosis, writes a book that is meant as a legacy to his son and happens to be dug out in the distant future, 500 years after Dave’s death, to become the Bible of the new London. My approach tries to show how the marking features of dystopian imagination are absorbed and remoulded by Will Self through his main character, whose disturbed personality provides the ratio for a new, apocalyptic plan of the city reverberating the most extreme and absurd aspects of Dave’s personality.