Of Me and Others (eBook)

1952 2019

Alasdair Gray (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
478 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-521-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells of how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of literature, Lanark and 1982, Janine. He details the inspirations behind his many acclaimed artworks and murals, and makes clear how his moral, social and political beliefs and his work are inextricably linked.Incisive, funny and fired with passion, Of Me and Others is as much about people, place and politics as it is about Gray''s own life in art.

Autor

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award by the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.

Rezensionen

A great writer, perhaps the greatest living in Britain today

Alasdair Gray is that rather rare bird among contemporary British writers - a genuine experimentalist

Gray has a rare ability to convey his thought in writing that is clear, invigorating and, in the very best way, fun. This book is all of those things, and much more besides . . . A thrilling and powerful statement about the value of Scottish art

One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language

Disarmingly personal . . . Like Gray himself, the book is by turns ebullient, eccentric, generous and shy

Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake

Unbelievably inventive

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2019
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: A Life in Pictures • arts memoir • Autobiography • Essays • Glasgow School of Art • Illustration • literary and literature memoirs • murals and artworks • Political
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-521-8 / 1786895218
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-521-9 / 9781786895219