![]() If there is meaning to be found, for this reader it was only in my own mind I didn’t read anything worthy of my highlighter’s attention until page 410. Gray has woven a fabric of whole cloth, to be sure, but its weave is far from uniform in color, texture, or perception. It is, as others have commented, a bildungsroman, and unconventional in many respects, even as it lards itself with conventional lives of people (marriage, birth, divorce), barely preternatural aspects of the world (greed, poverty, politics) and common, everyday events (war, unrest, power). So what exactly is a cult classic novel?Įven at its daunting length of 573 pages, Lanark is a compelling read – although I find myself at a loss as to why I say so. ![]() The book is also described here as a “cult classic.” Those words are hyperlinked to the eponymous Wiki page where, interestingly, novels are not mentioned as one of the categories of cult works of art. The Scots author-artist-alcoholic Alasdair Gray wrote his first novel Lanark (1981), subtitled “A Life in 4 Books,” over a period of thirty years, states its Wikipedia page. ![]()
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