@quadrivial It is, isn't it. You're welcome. And just in case you haven't already, I recommend reading #AlasdairGray​'s"Lanark" - you'll love that one, too, it's got a lot in common with Jerusalem: two visual artists taking decades to write their thinly-veiled semi-autobiographical novels about journeys to hell and, well, back? What's not to like.

Námět #tg383511571 "Dvě" je prvním bodem osnovy knihy, co
píšu. Spojuje se mi s dvěma knihami, kvůli kterým poruším
zásadu #tg803313373 "Bez angličtiny".

(1)
Alasdair Gray.
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Gray .
'Unlikely Stories, Mostly' (Nepravděpodobné historky,
většinou, 1983, do češtiny nepřeloženo).
https://www.mlp.cz/katalog/titul/unlikely-stories-mostly/2461210 .

A vlastně mám na mysli jen jednu z povídek sbírky.

'Five Letters From An Eastern Empire' (Pět dopisů z východní
říše).

(2)
Theodore Zeldin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Zeldin (anglicky).
'An Intimate History of Humanity' (Intitní dějiny lidstva,
1994, do češtiny nepřeloženo).
https://www.mlp.cz/katalog/titul/an-intimate-history-of-humanity/4055212 .

Grayova povídka mi osvětluje, že jakkoliv se to může jevit
opačně, že slova samy o sobě nemají význam nebo můžou
znamenat leccos. Že nestačí jen tak vypouštět slova do
prostoru, ale že je třeba pečovat o naslouchajícího. A že
je třeba pečovat o mluvícího.

Zeldinova kniha mi osvětluje, že způsoby vzájemné péče
nejsou jednou provždy dány, ale že v dějinách se objevují a
zanikají. Že nejsou ve všech společnostech v různých časech
a místech stejné. Že je možné vynalézt nový způsob vzájemné
péče.

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#tg383511571 Dvě. Je v souboru dve.txt .
#AlasdairGray #TheodoreZeldin

Alasdair Gray – Wikipedie

Coming May 2026:
The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray & the Arts
Ed. Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, & Kirsten Stirling

Interrogating Alasdair Gray’s literary & visual artistic practice & exploring relationships between these forms

@litstudies

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-alasdair-gray-and-the-arts.html

#Scottish #literature #art #visualart #AlasdairGray #PoorThings

It's funny reading Poor Things after seeing the film. I find myself seeing Emma Stone as Bella, but thus far the other characters all seem too Scottish to be their cinematic counterparts.

#PoorThings #AlasdairGray

BBC News: Alasdair Gray murals secure listed status for restaurant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqkyq83q21o

#AlasdairGray #Art

Alasdair Gray murals secure listed status for Glasgow restaurant

The Ubiquitous Chip's designation as a Category B listed building recognises the rare artworks painted on its walls.

BBC News

Responding to Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
15 April, University of Glasgow – free, ticketed

Rachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass, presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Rachelle Atalla will read from her newly commissioned short story, “Waste Management”, which delves into Glasgow’s hidden subterranean layers, drawing inspiration from LANARK & the city’s sanitation infrastructure

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-to-alasdair-grays-lanark-tickets-1984371725248

#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #Lanark

Responding to Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’

Rachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive

Eventbrite

Bookclub: Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray’s LANARK

Currently available on BBC Sounds.
Recorded at the at the 2026 Pitlochry Winter Words Festival, this special episode of Bookclub celebrates Alasdair Gray’s 1981 masterpiece, LANARK, with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook recently released by @canongatebooks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx

#Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming

Bookclub - Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray's Lanark - BBC Sounds

A special episode on Alasdair Gray's 1981 novel Lanark with the actor Alan Cumming.

BBC

“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”

—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”

https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/

#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy

Lanark – An Escape to Reality

I put down the book. ‘He did it. He wrote THE book’. He was Alisdair Gray and the book was Lanark. I read the book in my mid 20s when I was working at a call centre in Glasgow. I had recently gotte…

Distant Music

“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”

—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK

https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/

#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess

Ninety-Nine Novels: Lanark by Alasdair Gray - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. […]

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”

—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002

@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray

#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

Glasgow belongs to us

When it was first published 20 years ago, Alasdair Gray's novel Lanark was hailed as a modern classic. Two decades on, Janice Galloway finds the book as exuberant and seditious as ever

The Guardian