Canons: Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Paperback)

from antao

(Original Review, 1981-03-10) I don't have problem with intertextual interpretation as such. It's only that I've always seen reading as a collaborative process between an author and a reader. If you look at it that way, it makes you wonder which parts of deep reading "Lanark" come from the mind o...

from dbsovereign

Because it falls in what I would consider the "whacky" end of things, I found this a bit of a chore to read at first. However, once one gets past the stylistic aspects, there is treasure to be had.

from danimosity

By far the weirdest book anyone will ever read. Too weird, almost. When someone asks you what's it about, you will only get as far as "It's about this guy." Really. That's all I can say about it.

from danimosity

By far the weirdest book anyone will ever read. Too weird, almost. When someone asks you what's it about, you will only get as far as "It's about this guy." Really. That's all I can say about it.

from jonfaith

Alasdair Gray notes in the Epilogue section, strangely on p. 493 of his 560 page novel: " A possible explanation is that the author thinks a heavy book will make a bigger splash than two light ones. This note, well the entire section, appears to reconcile the disparate narratives which occupy the...