Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics)

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In those days I'd identified the character(s) Lanark/Thaw to the person I was in love with (especially the artist parts). Also you might think it has got something wrong with it because it starts with 'Book 3' but it is supposed to be like that.

But the dystopic sections are valuable for other reasons: for their depiction of vast, illogical space, of an incomprehensible and deeply criminal military-industrial complex that will stop at nothing to realize a profit.The Epilogue is where the book really shines in my opinion, and where all of the threads come together. Tıpkı ergen Thaw gibi motifleri nerede kullanmak konusunda kararsız ya da haddiden daha büyük şeyler anlatmak ve göstermek istiyor, bilmiyorum. Moreover, I was a feminist, and Gray was a sometime pornographer whose female characters barely scrape two dimensions. He finally finds himself old, sitting in a hilltop cemetery as Unthank breaks down in an apocalypse of fire and flood, and, his time of death having been revealed to him, he ends the book calmly awaiting it.

All the elements that were supposedly some grand theme around “love” seemed more like a petty, gendered desire for being loved by an insecure neurotic. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind’s inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying. But it reappears frequently in European history in various forms - usually among those who take the problem of evil seriously.At times I found the book to be incredibly pretentious (the Epilogue, oh dear lord the Epilogue), and found myself wanting to repeatedly roll my eyes. Having studied dystopian fiction as a module for my degree, I’m so surprised I hadn’t even stumbled upon this epic work of literature before. The book follows Thaw's wartime evacuation, secondary education and his scholarship to the Glasgow School of Art, where his inability to form relationships with women and his obsessive artistic vision lead to his descent into madness and eventual suicide by drowning. Gray said Glasgow Cathedral was the only location he purposefully visited to make notes about during the writing of the novel; all other locations he wrote about from memory.