Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics)

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Miller, Phil (21 May 2014). "Private funeral for wife of author Gray". The Herald . Retrieved 21 May 2014. Macwhirter, Iain (2014). Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland. Glasgow: Cargo Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908885-27-2. Self, Will (12 January 2006). "Alasdair Gray: An Introduction". will-self.com. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014 . Retrieved 21 May 2014.

What's worth saying, these decades on, is that Lanark , in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature. Its bravery in finding voice, in encouraging the enormous power of public, national, artistic, sexual and political imagination, is not something to take for granted. a b c Sansom, Ian (19 September 2008). "Review: Alasdair Gray by Rodge Glass". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 January 2020. Gray was a Scottish nationalist. He started voting for the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the 1970s, as he despaired about the erosion of the welfare state which had provided his education. He believed that North Sea oil should be nationalised. He wrote three pamphlets advocating Scottish independence from England, [nb 5] noting at the beginning of Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992) that "by Scots I mean everyone in Scotland who is eligible to vote." [71] [72] In 2014 he wrote that "the UK electorate has no chance of voting for a party which will do anything to seriously tax our enlarged millionaire class that controls Westminster." [73] Gray described English people living in Scotland as being either "settlers" or "colonists" in a 2012 essay. [71] [74] Caroti, Simone (2018). The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2040-4. Under the Helmet". BBC. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015 . Retrieved 25 November 2017.sert bir şekilde kapitalizm eleştirisi yapan Lanark, bilimkurgu ve fantastik romana ait gerçeküstücülüğü, diğer edebi türleri içinde yer alan gerçeklik temasıyla birlikte kullanan aynı zamanda bir distopya örneği. He had an eight-year relationship with Danish jeweller Bethsy Gray [18] [19] and was married to Morag McAlpine from 1991 until her death in 2014. [4] [20] Spowart, Nan (30 December 2019). "Alasdair Gray: A lifelong supporter of Scottish independence". The National . Retrieved 6 January 2020. Davies-Cole, Andrew (22 October 2009). "Gray's anatomy of the bigger picture". The Herald. Archived from the original on 20 June 2014 . Retrieved 21 May 2014.

Gray came to fiction late, publishing his first novel Lanark at the age of 46 in 1981. A experimental, pornographic fantasy – 1982, Janine – followed three years later, with his rambunctious reworking of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Poor Things, appearing in 1992. As his literary reputation increased, winning both the Guardian fiction prize and the Whitbread novel award in 1992, the elaborate illustrations he created for his books began to draw attention to the pictorial art Gray had been producing all along. The stream of commissions for murals and portraits gradually increased, and he finished his career as one of Scotland’s most admired and versatile artists. Around 2000, Gray had to apply to the Scottish Artists' Benevolent Association for financial support, as he was struggling to survive on the income from his book sales. [4] In 2001 Gray, Kelman and Leonard became joint professors of the Creative Writing programme at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. [35] [56] [57] Gray stood down from the post in 2003, having disagreed with other staff about the direction the programme should take. [58] Alasdair Gray seriously injured in fall". The Guardian. 18 June 2015. Archived from the original on 11 March 2017 . Retrieved 6 January 2020. Kitabın, linear bir anlatım sunmaması ve bazı okurlarca alışık olduğumuz fantazi ve bilimkurgu edebiyatında yer alacak öğeleri ve konu örtüsünü tam olarak barındırmamasından dolayı kitabın beğenilmemesine ve belki de aşırı derecede uzatılmış olabileceği gerçeğini göz ardı etmiyor. Bunun yanında kitabın yavaş yavaş açılması sabır gerektiren bir diğer durum.Currie, Brian; Settle, Michael (21 April 2010). "LibDems enjoy Clegg bounce in Scotland at expense of SNP". The Herald. Archived from the original on 26 April 2010 . Retrieved 25 October 2010. McGinty, David. "Alasdair Gray - A Life in Progress @ GFF 2013". The Skinny . Retrieved 6 January 2020. Kelly, Stuart (8 November 2018). "Book review: Hell: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One, by Alasdair Gray". The Scotsman . Retrieved 6 January 2020. Moores, Phil; Cunningham, A. E. (2002). Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. London: British Library. ISBN 978-0-7123-1129-8.

Will Self has called him "a creative polymath with an integrated politico-philosophic vision" [63] and "perhaps the greatest living [writer] in this archipelago today". [64] Gray described himself as "a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian". [65] In 2019 he won the inaugural Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Scottish literature. [46] [53] [66] A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time. It has changed the landscape The impulse to write as well as draw emerged in childhood. While at art school, he began a novel called Portrait of the Artist as a Young Scot, which contained the seed that grew into Lanark, almost 30 years later. In the 1960s and 70s, he wrote plays for radio, television and the stage, including some which would later be converted into novels. The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1985), his third novel, began life as a TV play in 1968. McGrotty and Ludmilla (1990) and Mavis Belfrage (1996) had similar origins. Some 20 of these plays were later collected in A Gray Play Book (2009). It included The Cave of Polyphemus, written in 1944, when he was nine. One of the most characteristically postmodern parts of the book is the Epilogue, in which Lanark meets the author in the guise of the character "Nastler". He makes the first two remarks about the book quoted above, and anticipates criticism of the work and of the Epilogue in particular, saying "The critics will accuse me of self-indulgence, but I don't care". An Index of Plagiarisms is printed in the margins of the discussion. For instance, Gray describes much of Lanark as an extended 'Difplag' (diffuse plagiarism) of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. Some of the supposed plagiarisms refer to non-existent chapters of the book.In 2001, Gray was narrowly defeated by Greg Hemphill when he stood as the candidate of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association for the post of Rector of the University of Glasgow. [79] A longstanding supporter of the SNP and the Scottish Socialist Party, Gray voted Liberal Democrat at the 2010 general election in an effort to unseat Labour, who he regarded as "corrupted"; [80] by the 2019 election he was voting Labour as a protest against the SNP for not being radical enough. [81]