Книга: Gray Alasdair «Lanark»

Lanark

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Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. First published in 1981, Lanark immediately established Gray as one of Britain's leading writers.

Издательство: "Canongate" (2017)

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Gray, Alasdair

▪ Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
born Dec. 28, 1934, East Glasgow, Scot.

      Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist best known for his novel Lanark (1981).

      Gray's family was evacuated from Glasgow during World War II. He later returned to attend Whitehill Senior Secondary School, where he wrote and drew for the school magazine, and the Glasgow School of Art. He went on to work as a muralist and a scene painter for local theatres. Throughout the 1960s and '70s he also wrote plays for television, radio, and the stage, all the while working on a novel that would be decades in the making. When he finally published Lanark, his first book, it was hailed as a landmark of Scottish literature.

      Subsequent works include Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983), 1982, Janine (1984), The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1985), and Poor Things (1992). In 2000 Gray edited The Book of Prefaces, which he also designed and illustrated, and he began restoring murals he had painted in the 1970s. In 2001 he became a professor of creative writing at Glasgow University. Throughout his career, Gray's murals, writings, and political activism endorsed socialism, opposed war and nuclear arms, and advocated Scottish independence.

Additional Reading
Rodge Glass, Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography (2008).

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Источник: Gray, Alasdair

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