I haven't read anything he has written since Leila in the early 80s, so I'd be interested to hear if his later books are as good as the earlier ones.
Also if anyone has a spare copy of the third Darcy Dancer book I've been trying to track that down for about a year now.
― holojames (holojames), Monday, 26 April 2004 07:33 (twenty years ago) link
Has it ever been filmed? There are shades of it in Withnail & I, I'd say & Mike Leigh's Naked (in the way that SD behaves so reprehensively, but is still bewilderingly attractive to the female characters)
― bham, Monday, 26 April 2004 10:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago) link
he is dead. rip.
gotta say i find the irish literary world fawning over him a bit rich - like when i read prominent feminist literary critics delighting in the time they met the author of one of the most juvenile and misogynist classic novels i've ever encountered, it seems a bit like the legend weighing too heavily.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Well idk what it says, except about the individuals in q really
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
scottish literature has the same "problem" with alasdair gray. he's the most feted living scottish writer (maybe in competition with jim kelman) and is pro-independence and left-wing. this means he is somehow completely beloved by all and sundry intellectuals, including some prominent feminists, despite the fact that his personal behaviour around women is at times a little bit odd, shall we say, and his writing contains a lot of infantile misogyny, with his autobiographical masterwork containing a scene where the character based on him strangles a young woman because she has rejected his romantic and sexual attentions.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
Transgression as a deeply entrenched element of the artist and etc and etc
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
it's more a case of when and for whom the transgression is allowed.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 14 September 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Jesus this is scorching stuff
The antidote to Casey, the gutter companion to Myles
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link
read the ginger man several times as a teenager (iirc as well as being scorching there was an element of sex education in it for me), haven't gone back to it since. feels like it might be worth a re-read.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
It's grim but. He's an appalling prick.
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
yes, i remember that.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link