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Sto caricando le informazioni... Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography (2008)di Rodge Glass
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Alasdair Gray tends to raid his biography in his books so there was not much surprising in this. But it was well written and the modern, diary sections are very interesting. Here the author is actually working with Gray on and off and so gives a more personal, intimate portrayal of the man. Of course it is only one man's personal views and so no doubt open to dispute. But interesting to read none the less. Gray is a very important Scottish writer/artist and it is good to see that someone who actually knew him has written a biography. Worth reading because Gray is worth reading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics Lanark, Poor Things and 1982, Janine, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Bovendien biedt Glass een uniek inzicht in het tot stand komen van de werken van Gray (het citeren vanuit het ziektebed, het op het laatste moment aanpassen van de titel van Old men in love, het aanpassen van de toneelstukken, ...). Een academischer biografie had waarschijnlijk meer aandacht besteed aan literaire themata & kritieken, aan documenten, aan huisnummers, ... had ook zijn beeldend werk een plaats kunnen geven ... en minder aan Gray's gezondheid, drinken, clowneske fratsen, ... maar we zouden die minder graag gelezen hebben, en we zouden ons minder schuldig voelen omdat we de verkeerde editie hebben van Something Leather. En we zouden minder gretig onthouden hebben dat we vanaf heden tot het eind der dagen zullen zoeken naar 1982, Janine en naar Poor Things (Lanark hebben we reeds - maar moeten we binnenkort toch maar eens herlezen ..., A life in pictures en The book of prefaces houden we in beraad.)
Het boek telt enkele illustraties, louter foto's, maar veel te weinig. De beschrijvingen van de boekcovers, van de portretten en vooral van de muurschilderingen doen naar meer verlangen (o.a. dus naar A life in pictures dat volgens de Book Depository pas binnen 262 dagen zal verschijnen - iets wat je trouwens, na het lezen van Glass' boek, amper durft geloven).
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