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Simon Dykes wakes up one morning to a world where chimpanzees are self-aware and humans are the equivalent of chimps in our world. Simon has lived a life of quick drugs, shallow artists and meaningless sex.
1 de jan. de 2001 · Great Apes is set in an alternate reality which really is a ‘planet of the apes’. In this world, Simon Dykes, Self’s protagonist, wakes up after days of indulging in drugs and sex, to find everyone around him is a chimpanzee.
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11 de ago. de 1998 · Like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Great Apes is a strange and twisted tale, a surreal satire on the human condition, and an omen for those who wander too far. After a long night of partying, Simon Dykes, a successful British painter, wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee.
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“Great Apes, the exultantly hallucinogenic new novel by Will Self, a satirist of some moral seriousness, imagines a world subject to a complete species reversal. Self’s fable eventually segues from hyperinventive wit into something more thoughtful, and achieves the rare feat of temporarily altering the reader’s perspective.
Originally a novel by Will Self, Great Apes is a hilarious, disturbing and dazzlingly original take on man's place in the evolutionary chain.When Turner...
Great Apes. "When artist Simon Dykes wakes after a late night of routine debauchery, he discovers that his world has changed beyond recognition. His girlfriend, Sarah, has turned into a...
Great Apes. by. Will Self. In the novel, a renowned London artist wakes up one day to find himself in a parallel world where chimpanzees have evolved to be the dominant species, with humans relegated to a subservient role.
