Škótsky autor, ktorého diela sú fascinujúcou zmesou realizmu, fantázie a science fiction. Jeho inovatívny prístup k písaniu, často doplnený o vlastné ilustrácie a jedinečnú typografiu, zaraďuje jeho tvorbu medzi kľúčové diela postmodernistickej literatúry. V porovnaní s velikánmi ako Kafka a Borges, jeho romány a poviedky skúmajú hlboké otázky a ovplyvnili celú generáciu škótskych spisovateľov. Grayova práca je dôkazom jeho vizionárskeho ducha a jedinečného pohľadu na svet.
The loves and lives of June, Senga and Donalda are told in this book which covers the period 1963 to 1990. Also featured are unhappy children, a liberal headmistress, a tobacconist's family, a commercial traveller, a lighthouse keeper and a pimp. From the author of "Lanark".
S podtitulem „Život ve čtyřech knihách“ se Lanark, autobiografická fantazie a moderní vize pekla zasazená do rozpadajících se měst Unthank a Glasgow, kombinující různé literární žánry, stala literární senzací a román je považován za stěžejní dílo moderní skotské literatury a srovnáván s Joyceovým Odysseem. Prosadil se hned při prvním vydání v roce 1981 a od té doby se dočkal mnoha reedic a cizojazyčných vydání. Podle slov jednoho kritika je to „sága města, kde je realita asi tak stejně spolehlivá jako hodinky Salvadora Dalího“.
The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray
This text presents the books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum. The book of Jonah shows the people of Nineveh being forgiven, yet this overturns usual biblical narrative such as Micah and Nahum where Israel's enemies are expected to get their come-uppance. With an introduction by Alasdair Gray.
'Grandly conceived, gorgeously realised, and sparklingly alert to the making not just of works of art, but of a language, this crammed compendium, so copiously yet lightly learned, so drolly self-reflexive, yet enticingly accessible, so exhilaratingly, quixotically magniloquent, is the last word in forewords.' Herald
From the genius of Scottish letters, a satire of religion, the media and London
Describing etiquette, government, irrigation, education, clogs, kites, rumour, poetry, justice, massage, town-planning, sex and ventriloquism in an obsolete nation. Alasdair Gray was born in 1934. He obtained a diploma in Design and Mural Painting in 1957 and has since earned his living in Glasgow, mostly by painting and writing. Much of his fiction is published in Penguin, including 1982 Janine, Poor Things, Ten Tales Tall & True and Unlikely Stories, Mostly, from which Five Letters from an Eastern Empire is taken.
An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years.
This novel is 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.
Duncan Thaw, the narrator, has to cope with a loveless family and the drudgery of growing to maturity in Glasgow. Elsewhere the author moves Thaw into fantasy when he sends him to Unthank, a city he is condemned to after his death. From the author of "Something Leather".
