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“…the novel’s fizzing exuberance derives from the fun of watching Gray’s keen authorial intelligence finding layer upon layer of unexpected possibility in his one ingenious narrative conceit.”

—Jonathan Coe reviews Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS in the London Review of Books, 8 October 1992

#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #PoorThings

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n19/jonathan-coe/gray-s-elegy

Yorgos Lanthimos’s adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s novel POOR THINGS (1992) has won the Golden Lion at the 2023 La Biennale di Venezia. In a series of recordings made in the last year of his life, Gray talks about the novel & reads extracts – & discusses works which influenced him, from Thomas Love Peacock’s NIGHTMARE ABBEY (1818) to Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

#Scottish #literature #Gothic #AlasdairGray #film #cinema #PoorThings

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLor57Z68fL3z_x_OilOeATZP8b2NkF__7

“The entire book is based round contradictions and options. Christ, Gray even creates his own nemesis to negate everything he says. Who is correct about the manuscripts, Alasdair Gray or Michael Donnelly? Who is telling the truth, Bella Baxter or Archibald McCandless? We will never know. We don’t know anything in this book.”

Poor Wee Things – is Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS a #YA novel?

🚨 WARNING – CONTAINS SPOILERS

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https://alasdairgrayspace.net/head/head-post-poor-wee-things

#vendredilecture toujours en Écosse, aujourd’hui à Glasgow où il y a quarante ans que l’écrivain-peintre #AlasdairGray avait l’habitude de payer pour ses repas au #UbiquitousChip en couvrant les murs de la cage d’escalier au fond de l’établissement de décorations et portraits de sa clientèle et de ses employé·es des années ~1979. C’était avant la publication du chef-d’œuvre #Lanark et de son modeste succès commercial, et Gray était encore souvent raide au point de n’avoir rien à bouffer. 1/2

Now to return to Agnes Owens and a reread of A Working Mother. I loved Betty’s story & she will form the focus of my formulation for the novella. Lots of interesting themes such as trauma, alcohol use & the impact of war on returning soldiers & their families to consider

I read this at the start of the year & it’ll be my first reread of her work so I can work up character profiles for Agnes’ complete work. Really looking forward to shaping up this larger project with The #AlasdairGray Archive 📚

#alasdairgray #glasgow

Filmy i seriale:
»„Poor Things”«

Tym razem coś spod znaku Frankenstein's Monster była kobietą, czyli trailer komedii romantycznej/SF/opowieści gotyckiej/historii emancypacyjnej "Poor Things" opartej na powieści Alasdaira Gray'a. Reżyseruje Yorgos Lanthimos ("Faworyta"). W rolach głównych: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef i Jerrod Carmichael.
Premiera 28 września 2023.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/film/poor-things/

#Fahrenheit_zin #film #EmmaStone #YorgosLanthimos #AlasdairGray #PoorThings

I read Poor Things by Alasdair Gray with my bookclub. I'm not a fun of surreal stories but I did enjoy it, and I'm very curious to watch the movie! Has anyone else read it? @bookstodon #PoorThings #AlasdairGray

Found this (slightly battle-worn) foreign edition in the office that would seem to suggest that the German for "1982 Janine" is "Janine 1982".

WARNUNG! PORNOGRAPHISCHER SCHUND!

#AlasdairGray #1982Janine

please, nobody tell me owt dodgy about alasdair gray because i fell in love with his series, 'city recorder' today at gallery of modern #art in #glasgow. #GoMA #scotland #alasdairGray

please, nobody tell me anything dodgy about alasdair gray because i fell in love with his 'city recorder' series today at gallery of modern #art. #goma #glasgow #scotland #alasdairGray

A Gray Day Broadcast

From 25 Feb 2021 – the first ever #GrayDay, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Alasdair Gray’s novel LANARK. Featuring Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Alan Cumming, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney, Chitra Ramaswamy, Alex Kapranos, Ewen Bremner, Louise Welsh, Salena Godden, Gavin Mitchell, Bernard MacLaverty, Rodge Glass, The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly, & more.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyoRe75xNM

“Only the rich & illiterate can ignore our anthology. With this in their lavatory everyone else can read nothing but newspaper supplements & still seem educated.”

– #AlasdairGray describes his BOOK OF PREFACES: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century Edited & Glossed by Alasdair Gray Mainly to Willy Maley – one of several contributors to the volume paid in portraiture
#Scottish #literature #GrayDay
https://www.willymaley.scot/2020/06/27/portraits-and-prefaces/

INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them?

ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe.

I: Just like that?

AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it and honed it down to as few words as possible.

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“Frightening and downright filthy: why everyone must read Alasdair Gray”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/30/alasdair-gray-lanark-sarah-ditum-appreciation

I attempted to post an advert on Facebook/Instagram for the Gray Day event that is happening this Saturday, but the ad has been rejected, because it included this extremely salacious image.

If you’re in #Glasgow this Saturday evening and would like to see a celebration of #AlasdairGray, with readings and live music, and if you are not utterly scandalised by this illustration of a woman’s breasts, then tickets are available here: https://www.grayday.info/2023

When we asked #AlasdairGray for a caption quote for an #IainClark exhibition, he said ‘it is quite simply the best portrait of me as a working artist that anyone had ever done.’ (Pic with permission) #Scotland #Culture #writing #art #photography #ThrowbackThursday #iainclarkartnet

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Three years ago today we lost Alasdair…

Thinking of those who knew and loved him today more than ever ❤️

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#thealasdairgrayarchive

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AGrayArchive/status/1608358556864245760

Alasdair Gray’s mural in the Òran Mór, Glasgow.

The ceiling is divided into twelve parts, so Gray based his artwork in part on the zodiac (referring to a Ladybird guide for children to map his constellations).

Some of the text on the walls/ceiling:
“Where are we from?” "Life Is Rooted in Death’s Republic"
“What are we?” “Animals Who Want More Than We Need”
“Where are we going?" “Our Seed Returns to Death’s Republic".

Elsewhere appears “Let us flourish by telling the truth” and a phrase Gray often returns to: “Work as if you are living in the early days of a better nation.”

Photos by Mark Wild (first two) and Kat Gollock (third).
#mural #artwork #painting #art #AlasdairGray

Very happy to have found a cheap used copy of this. Any other #AlasdairGray fans out there? #books

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To celebrate our first Christmas we’ve created #AGrayAdvent calendar of 24 (occasionally) festive cards from Alasdair Gray. Our first post exemplifies 3 themes that will reappear during our Christmas countdown: #Upcycling #Thrifty #NoMoney👇
#AlasdairGray #AdventCalendar

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AGraySpace_net/status/1598266418914816004