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Lanark: A Life in Four Books
by Alasdair Gray
Finally read Lanark
I'll be off to.see if better heads than mine have made the comparison to The Glass Bead Game I feel like.making. this strikes.me as a.more cynical, self reflexive, humbler version of the story told therein. A Scottish rather than a.German version. And where the Glass Bead Game follows its confidence and classic harmonies right through to it's apotheosis, Lanark is steadfast in doing the.opposite, dismantling confidence and.projections of.glory the whole time. Nevertheless it sandwiches majesty next to mendacity in the most complete way to create a character and a way of encompassing its epic aims that's wholly unlike most other things I've read. I believe I'll return to Lanark again and see different harmonies in it,perhaps ironically the same experience I have of The Glass Bead Game.
I'll be off to.see if better heads than mine have made the comparison to The Glass Bead Game I feel like.making. this strikes.me as a.more cynical, self reflexive, humbler version of the story told therein. A Scottish rather than a.German version. And where the Glass Bead Game follows its confidence and classic harmonies right through to it's apotheosis, Lanark is steadfast in doing the.opposite, dismantling confidence and.projections of.glory the whole time. Nevertheless it sandwiches majesty next to mendacity in the most complete way to create a character and a way of encompassing its epic aims that's wholly unlike most other things I've read. I believe I'll return to Lanark again and see different harmonies in it,perhaps ironically the same experience I have of The Glass Bead Game.