After his death in mysterious circumstances, Lady Sara goes through Tunnock's papers, which include an autobiographical sketch, a moderately salacious diary and a few (possibly plagiarised) drafts towards a novel, then hands the whole lot over to a local writer who – after providing a title, illustrations and marginalia – hopes to claw back some cash from Bloomsbury, "a highly successful firm that had done well out of J K Rowling's Harry Potter books".
Alasdair Grays Lanark: A World Made on Paper marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Grays first novel, Lanark: A Life in Four Books. The introduction to Old Men in Love is provided by an American businesswoman called Lady Sara Sim-Jaeger, the heir and executrix of John Tunnock, a retired Glaswegian schoolteacher of murky habits. This new Hunterian exhibition is dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (19342019). Gray’s dystopian vision coupled with the tenderest recollections of his childhood and what it is like to grow up and to love are extraordinary and boy can he write You really care about Lanark.
From the very start, his 20th book plays the kind of good-natured, half-heartedly postmodern games that its author has been quietly enjoying ever since the genre-swallowing metafictional fantasia of Lanark sent him to the front of the class in the 1980s. Lanark.Alasdair Gray Traducción de Albert Solé Marbot (Barcelona, 2013) «Soy El Mago, en definitiva, el autor como Dios Padre, compréndalo, y usted el protagonista de la novela es mi Hijo destinado al sacrificio, y el lector es un Espíritu Santo que lo mantiene todo unido y en movimiento». Incredible writing - he transports you to another world, a world not impossibly our own. Alasdair Gray, it seems, is unwilling to muck about with a good formula but then again, none of his fans would want him to.
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