![]() ![]() However, it is Book Three that starts the novel and Book Three is decidedly not realist. If the reader had started at Book One, this fairly conventional, realist narrative would have been the result. ![]() ![]() He has problems relating to women and that fact and his artistic vision make him unable to cope with the real world and he ends up drowning himself. He later wins a scholarship to the Glasgow School of Art but he is not a success. Though the books are numbered one-four, Book Three is the first, followed by the Prologue and then Books One, Two and Four.īooks One and Two tell the fairly realistic story of Duncan Thaw, loosely based on Gray’s own life. It consists of four books, with a prologue that is not at the beginning and an epilogue. It took nearly thirty years after he first started writing it, before it was published. Lanark, Gray’s first novel, brought him to immediate prominence and it has been hailed as one of the great Scottish novels and one of the great novels of the 20th century. Home » Scotland » Alasdair Gray » Lanark Alasdair Gray: Lanark ![]()
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