![]() Importantly, Gray practiced the utopianism he preached, in a manner characterised by humility as well as hard graft. Twenty years after the initial gratitude for this book’s having been written at all, that alone is worth re-saying.” The novel suggests we might reach this utopia, if we only work hard enough to bring it about. made me feel acknowledged, spoken to, listened for. Writing twenty years after its publication, Janice Galloway reflects on how “Alasdair Gray’s writing. Located somewhere between science fiction, memoir, surrealism and realism, the Guardian describes its influence as “opening up the imaginative territory inhabited today by writers such as AL Kennedy, James Kelman and Irvine Welsh”.ĭespite its bleak setting in a city named Unthank, Lanark presents the reader with a strange sense of optimism, as if a utopia lurks somewhere in the near future, a society characterised by equality, insight and art. ![]() ![]() ![]() Outside of Scotland, Gray was probably best known for his striking first novel, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), which garnered numerous accolades, including the Saltire Society Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year in 1982. ![]()
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