The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray
“Novels narrated in the first-person or in the third- can have those choices rendered cinematically […]. But Gray used endnotes, illustrations, typography, plagiarism, self-reference, and the layout of the page to further his plots, to deepen his diegesis, and to make us laugh.”
@johnmclaren@bookstodon Alasdair Gray really was a remarkable writer & artist … I would strongly recommend reading his novels & short fiction.
There are some recordings of him reading novel extracts & short stories online: here’s “The Crank that Made the Revolution” (although sadly it lacks the author’s illustrations)
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