― 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