Lanark. Life in four books. Gray A.

Lanark is one of the main British books of the 20th century, a debut novel, which has been written for more than 30 years and has appeared to the world of the new master of the first size. “Lanark” is simultaneously a novel of education and an adventurous chronicle, mystical phantasmagoria and a book about first love; Something similar could have turned out to be Joyce, Kafka and Edgar, if they sat down with the three of them to write the Pinocchio script for Walt Disney - in Glasgow, armed with a box of Scottish whiskey. Here, a non-student-student receives an order for the painting of the cathedral, people in the afterlife are covered with crocodile skin, and government officials are passing an exam for a slow murder of hope.

“Lanark struck me to the stoves. In my opinion, this is the best Scottish novel of the XX century ”