6/11/2023 0 Comments Lanark alasdair gray review![]() 1982, Janine also has the best blurb I think I’ve ever read-you can watch Gray read it in this 1993 STV documentary about Gray (around 15:34). 1982, Janine is conceptually, formally, and typographically challenging, a kind of answer to Finnegans Wake, and like Joyce’s big weird fun hard novel, Gray’s sophomore jaunt is a jam I return to again and again without the hope of truly ever finishing. Gray’s art of course adorns his follow-up to Lanark, 1984’s 1982, Janine, a challenging novel of debauchery. Gray was trained as a muralist, and if I ever make it to Glasgow I plan to see his murals. Lanark included original artwork by Gray, a trend that would continue over the course of his career as a novelist. Part dystopian fantasy, part realist autofiction, part Kafkaesque anti-quest, and part Künstlerroman, Lanark deconstructs the traditional novel, braiding multiple narratives into a complex, sharp, satirical epic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gray’s first novel, 1981’s Lanark, is one of the strangest and most memorable novels I’ve ever read. The Scottish novelist and artist Alasdair Gray died today, one day after his 85th birthday. ![]()
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