Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Alasdair Gray

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This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying.


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    Apr 02, 2025
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    This book is bizarre. Overall I don’t feel like it really worked for me, and I think that’s because it’s very much a product of its time. There’s a lot of misogyny in here with some racism peppered in for good measure. It’s definitely a unique story, but is it one still worth talking about all these years later? Probably not. 

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