![]() Aside from the diary extracts the most successful of these is the part featuring Socrates – especially the scenes of his trial. This last becomes a trifle tedious as it meanders on. As a result, a couple of (short) chapters of Old Men In Love are set in renaissance Florence, there is an abortive History of Scotland from the Big Bang, a longer section dealing (in two well separated parts) with Socratic Athens, another with the origins of a small nineteenth century English religious cult called the Agapemonites, also known as the Lampeter Brethren. The book is presented as the literary papers of John Tunnock, a retired primary school teacher, and includes extracts from Tunnock’s diary and from the various writing projects he had started, abandoned, and perhaps restarted. ![]() ![]() The Bloomsbury edition also comes with a nice internal bookmark. The usual Gray appurtenances are present illustrations, marginal notes, typographical excursions. ![]() Ever since it has been impossible when sampling his work to escape the fact that you are reading a Gray book. Lanark‘s publication in 1981 marked not only Alasdair’ Gray’s arrival as a major Scottish novelist but also of his distinctive style. ![]()
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