![]() “No, no,” he replies, then adds after a pause: “although, perhaps, I would like a whisky. At one point in our interview he is caught up in a prolonged fit of coughing, and I ask him if he wants me to fetch him a glass of water. Although his health is clearly not what it was-and although the resultant loss of independence cannot be a pleasant development for the man who had often elected to describe himself first and foremost as “a Glasgow pedestrian”-it seems Gray has little intention of slowing down. What’s more, it’s only one of several projects he has on the go: while I’m there, Gray shows me a new edition of his poems being brought out by a small American press, and hints at other written works. He’s stressed about it, Stef confides in me-the publisher wants the pages. 2 Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Edinburgh: Canongate. ![]() Several papers are laid out across his drafting table, each with the same outline of a cave mouth, each with a sketched and re-sketched figure in the bottom corner. particular the novels Lanark (1981), Poor Things (1992) and A History Maker. Towards the end of our interview, we talk about the illustration Gray is working on: a cover for the second volume of the Divine Comedy. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |