Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying. Kapitalizm hakkında birçok yazar kurmaca yazmıştır mesela ama Gray içlerinde cidden parlayacak bir şekilde derdini anlatıyor. The second half of the book elaborates on the economic struggles and pinpoints the collusion between corporations, the most wealthy individuals and the governments of the world as poisoning life, destroying society and rationalizing it all in pursuit of profit.

The whole work was finished in 1976, and published in 1981 by the Scottish publisher Canongate Press. Let me say at once that I do not fear wars between any government represented here today, nor do I fear revolution.

Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian View image in fullscreen ‘Lanark is the kind of book that could look like proof of madness’ . If you can't understand this review then I tell you again: if I didn't understand a book, I review it like this.

By now, though, I've figured out that we're going back to that world of the first (third) part for the last part, which is also the last part, except for all the parts that come after. Anyway, it's good, but it's also flawed, as to be fair the author himself admits in a rather interesting confessional Epilogue. But a key to both might be found in what I think is its philosophical, and therefore essentially literary, context.

It's a narrative of a life, with maybe more mental illness in it than most, but okay, competently done, worth reading.

Lanark is an autobiography, a surreal depiction of hell, a literary and metafictional reflection, and a discourse on political systems. We then continue on in the world of Unthank with: Book Four, followed by an Epilogue, and then strangely… four additional chapters. Lanark follows the life of Thaw/Lanark, through his short, nasty life in Scotland and his afterlife in Unthank.Unthank is very much a hellish vision of Glasgow, and there is more than a hint that Lanark himself is really Duncan Thaw trapped in his own personal hell: Thaw's narrative ends as he walks out into the sea, and Lanark arrives in Unthank with seashells and sand in his pockets. Thaw lived in the real Glasgow, which I was pleased to see meticulously described for the first time in any fiction that I have ever read. Books One and Two constitute a realist Bildungsroman beginning in pre-war Glasgow, and tell the story of Duncan Thaw ("based on myself, he was tougher and more honest"), a difficult and precocious child born to impecunious and frustrated parents in the East End of Glasgow. There he enters a vast Orwellian compound known as The Institute where everyone's a doctor, or becomes one.

The function of these objects is to patrol our world on the lookout for the sparks of light, that is to say human souls, which have managed to detach themselves through secret knowledge from the evil bonds of the Earth. Tıpkı ergen Thaw gibi motifleri nerede kullanmak konusunda kararsız ya da haddiden daha büyük şeyler anlatmak ve göstermek istiyor, bilmiyorum. Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel ( Lanark: A Life in Four Books ) was published by Canongate, he has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories.He finally finds himself old, sitting in a hilltop cemetery as Unthank breaks down in an apocalypse of fire and flood, and, his time of death having been revealed to him, he ends the book calmly awaiting it. Half the book is a realist rendition of The Artist as a Young Man set in Scotland, the other half is a surrealist vision of hell cribbed from The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, and then a few scenes add a soupcon of straight up characters-talk-to-the-author, author-talks-to-the-reader baloney like a lazy John Barthes or Pirandello. Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. These elements amalgamate into a troubled and opaque whole, lacking any real pretence of cohesion; an entirely unique work, about as complex, original and ambitious as a novel can be.