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Engraved on the wall outside the Scottish Parliament are the words “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” Attributed to Alasdair Gray, Scotland’s national treasure, this perfectly exemplifies Gray’s humility, his awareness that his status is a shared one.
This goes some way to explain the title of Gray’s essay collection, Of Me and Others. “I thought this book would turn out to be a ragbag of interesting scraps,” he writes in the foreword, “I now think it has the unity of a struggle for a confident culture, a struggle shared with a few who became good friends and thousands I have never met.” This essay collection is all at once an intellectual autobiography of Scotland’s greatest living writer; a conversation with writers and painters who influenced and have been influenced by him, and a cultural and political manifesto-as-collage.
A cult figure all over the world and across generations, Gray engages with figures both known in North America, such as R.D. Laing, Anthony Burgess and Will Self, and largely unknown; Susan Boyd, Joan Ure, and Philip Hobsbaum. What emerges is a portrait not just of himself, but of a radically democratic vision of society, profoundly concerned not just with self-expression but of care for one’s fellow citizens.
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Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, including Lanark and 1982, Janine, both recently re-issued by Canongate, as well as 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. The first volume in his new translation of Dante’s Inferno is forthcoming in February 2019, also from Canongate.
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“[Alasdair] Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake.” (―Observer)
“Unbelievably inventive. A necessary genius.” (―Ali Smith)
“The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott.” (―Anthony Burgess)
“Alasdair Gray is that rather rare bird among contemporary British writers―a genuine experimentalist.” (―David Lodge)
"Probably a crank, possibly a genius, certainly an original and independent voice, Alasdair Gray . . . has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery." (―Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review)
“Unbelievably inventive. A necessary genius.” (―Ali Smith)
“The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott.” (―Anthony Burgess)
“Alasdair Gray is that rather rare bird among contemporary British writers―a genuine experimentalist.” (―David Lodge)
"Probably a crank, possibly a genius, certainly an original and independent voice, Alasdair Gray . . . has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery." (―Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review)
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