Ovid's dazzling epic poem includes sex changes galore. Only by cross-dressing, can she escape the constraints society has imposed on her. The female Orlando finds she cannot inherit her beautiful house her titles are pronounced in abeyance and her estates put into chancery. As a woman, Orlando doesn't feel any different – but society certainly treats her differently. Woolf believed the creative mind is androgynous. He begins as a nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I, and at 30 he falls into a slumber and wakes as a woman. Orlando, Woolf's fantastical biography, records the 400-year life of Lord Orlando. In symmetry with Will, I suffer from sex dysmorphia I habitually feel like an angry young man trapped in the body of a female … I got my first publishing deal with Faber back in 2005 by pretending to be a man, capitalising on the androgynous ambiguity of my name, for my book was aimed at male readers. The novel kicks off with a girl called Sylvie who has a sex change and undergoes plastic surgery in order to look like Self she gargles with salt on a daily basis in order to imitate the guttural tenor of his voice.The last section is narrated by Sam Mills, a male novelist, who develops a fetish for making love to a woman in a Will Self mask. And so The Quiddity of Will Self also plays games with gender.
His novella Cock & Bull plays about with genital gender changes (see below), and he is particularly adept at creating female characters, his best to date being Audrey Dearth in Umbrella. Self once said that he often felt like a nervous, feminine creature in the body of a fierce, hulking male. It seemed only fitting that my novel, a homage to Will Self, our greatest living novelist, should contain transmogrifications of gender.
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