Dorian, an Imitation Dorian, an Imitation Dorian, an Imitation is a British novel by Will Self. The book is a modern take on Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray". The novel was originally published by Viking Press in 2002 and subsequently by Penguin in 2003. Self was originally asked to adapt the Wilde novel into a film screenplay, but this project did not come to fruition. Instead, Self took this uncompleted screenplay and re-worked it into a novel, which he described as "an imitation - and a homage" to the Wilde original. Self draws correlations between the life of his character Dorian
Wings (Kuzmin novel) to approve same-sex love in print: "Wilde in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890) only hinted that his hero's inner corruption resulted from his suppression of his true nature; Gide did not dare to name the attraction of his hero in "The Immoralist" (1902); Proust felt impelled to engage in all manner of subterfuge, and Forster wrote "Maurice" for the desk drawer." Vladimir Nabokov parodied Kuzmin's novel in his own short novel "The Eye", using "Smurov" as the name of a male protagonist and "Vanya" of a female one. Wings (Kuzmin novel) Wings () was the first Russian novel centred