Alasdair Gray : a Glaswegian pal.
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Bien qu'elle ne dispose pas (pour l'instant ?) d'un État, l'Ecosse n'en est pas moins l'une des nations les plus anciennement constituées d'Europe et l'une de celles qui ont gardé les traits les plus originaux. Elle n'a jamais connu l'occupation romaine : son peuplement, sa langue, son organisation ...
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Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary, playful imagination, it conveys a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our ...
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The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories
Alasdair Gray
- Canongate books digital
- 23 Janvier 2014
- 9781847677266
Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude - a sure tonic for the young. The first work of f...
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The Books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum
Alasdair Gray
- Canongate books digital
- 1 Janvier 1999
- 9780857861054
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A lecturer cornered in an embarrassing ménÁ ge Á trois, a Glaswegian Cinderella and an extremely talkative dentist all feature in this brilliant and original collection of tall tales from Alasdair Gray, author of Lanark, Poor Things and The Book of Prefaces. Bringing together social realism, sexu...
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Men in Love, like The Arabian Nights, is about a storyteller whose stories contain other stories. As in Alasdair Gray's Lanark, 1982 Janine, Poor Things, and The Book of Prefaces, this one has many styles of narrative and location. Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Victorian Somerset mingle wi...
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'Too clever for its own good in parts, but otherwise a damned good read.' Col. Sebastian Moran in the Simla Times 'This anthology may be likened to a vast architectural folly imblending the idioms of the Greek, Gothic, Oriental, Baroque, Scottish Baronial and Bauhaus schools. Like one who, absently ...
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Introduced by Will Self. An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock. 1982, Janine is a searing portrait of mal...
