In some ways it's even more relevant today. It increases the scope of fiction's possibilities * * Independent * *Ī phantasmagorical mixture of realism and fantasy * * The List * * His first novel, Lanark, wis setten furth in 1981, an teuk near 30 year tae fienish. Knocks the socks off almost everything written on this little island in the past fifty years. Lanark: A Life in Four Books 1982, Janine Poor Things The Book of Prefaces Wabsteid Alasdair Gray(28 December 1934 29 December 2019) wis a Scots writer an airtistthat wis born in Glesga. Lanark, the first novel and arguably the masterpiece of gouges a dwelling place in your imagination and leaves it forever altered. In Gray's hands, the simple, direct prose found him a wide readership. Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches - William Boyd * * Times Literary Supplement * *įrom a lesser writer, stygian darkness and baroque structure might see off a mass audience and reduce a book to cult status. Undoubtedly the best work of fiction written by a Scottish author for decades * * Time Out * * It has changed the landscape - Allan Massie * * The Scotsman * * A saga of a city where reality is about as reliable as a Salvador Dali watch - Brian AldissĪ quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time. When dawn comes up and retires in dismay, we find ourselves in the presence of an overpowering surreal imagination. the best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott - Anthony Burgess It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. it marked the beginning of a new era - James Campbell * * Observer * * Probably the greatest novel of the century. I think it's the best in Scottish literature this century - Iain Banks This new Hunterian exhibition is dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (19342019).
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