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Alasdair Gray

    28. prosinec 1934 – 29. prosinec 2019

    Skotský autor, jehož díla jsou fascinující směsí realismu, fantazie a science fiction. Jeho inovativní přístup k psaní, často doplněný o vlastní ilustrace a jedinečnou typografii, řadí jeho tvorbu mezi klíčová díla postmoderní literatury. Srovnávaný s velikány jako Kafka a Borges, jeho romány a povídky zkoumají hluboké otázky a ovlivnily celou generaci skotských spisovatelů. Grayova práce je důkazem jeho vizionářského ducha a jedinečného pohledu na svět.

    Alasdair Gray
    The Fall of Kelvin Walker
    The Book of Prefaces
    The Books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum
    A Life In Pictures
    Lanark. Život ve čtyřech knihách
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    • 2022

      Alasdair Gray's remarkable retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy; this edition brings Gray's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise together into a single edition for the first time

      Dante's Divine Trilogy
    • 2020

      PARADISE

      • 144 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení

      The final book from the late Alasdair Gray - the conclusion to his remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy

      PARADISE
    • 2019

      PURGATORY

      • 160 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení

      Alasdair Gray's remarkable interpretation of Dante's La Divina Commedia continues

      PURGATORY
    • 2019

      Of Me and Others

      • 480 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení
      3,4(6)Ohodnotit

      The essential essay collection from one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray

      Of Me and Others
    • 2015

      Air Warfare

      • 208 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení

      An introduction to the historiography of air power, the theories behind it and the political, legal and moral dimensions of its application.

      Air Warfare
    • 2014

      Independence

      • 144 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení

      A polemic on the case for Scottish independence by the writer, artist, thinker and cultural icon, Alasdair Gray.

      Independence
    • 2012

      Every Short Story, 1951-2012

      • 933 stránek
      • 33 hodin čtení
      4,2(72)Ohodnotit

      An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years.

      Every Short Story, 1951-2012
    • 2011

      Lanark

      • 592 stránek
      • 21 hodin čtení
      4,0(343)Ohodnotit

      Set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, this modern vision of hell tells the interwoven stories of two men: Lanark and Duncan Thaw. As the Life in Four Books unfolds, the strange, buried relationship between Lanark and Thaw slowly starts to emerge. Lanark is a towering work of the imagination and is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Gray, who also illustrated and designed the novel. On its first publication it was immediately recognised as a major work of literature, and drew comparisons with Dante, Black, Joyce, Orwell, Kafka, Huxley and Lewis Carroll. Thirty years on, its power, majesty, anger and relevance has only intensified.

      Lanark
    • 2010

      A fantastic layered novel of stories within stories set in Athens, Florence, Somerset, and Glasgow.

      Old Men in Love
    • 2010

      A Life In Pictures

      • 312 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      4,6(93)Ohodnotit

      The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray

      A Life In Pictures