The novel was called 'a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book' by the London Review of Books and is a departure from Gray's usual subject-matter of Glasgow realism and fantasy. It won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1992 and the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1992. Gray was presumably drawn to Dante because, unlike many other translators, he was rather like Dante: astonishingly inventive an insider-outsider in his own land, who profoundly understood the. This discussion of the author, ‘Alasdair Gray’, allows for a broader discussion of the self, reflecting Gray’s political position as one not limited to Scotland but encouraging of all nations to consider postcolonial futures. Poor Things is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. Alasdair Gray Born in 1934, Alasdair Graygraduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Beginning in a realistic mode that follows the life of a Glasgow artist until his. I discuss the role of the novel form in developing ideas of the nation, presenting Gray’s destabilisation of the author as a political statement. Grays first novel is a true Scottish epic, both in scope and ambition. The play, titled Lanark: A Life in Three Acts, is the second stage adaptation of Gray’s critically acclaimed novel. Gray uses polyphony to present a range of authorial figures that act to destabilise traditional textual authority held by the author. THE play adaptation of Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray debuts at the Edinburgh International Festival on Friday. It won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1992 and the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1992. This metafictional discussion will centre on the author and how Gray, in his novels, exposes and manipulates the authority held by the author figure to form a political dialogue. Poor Things is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. In this thesis I engage with both the postmodern and political nature of Gray’s work, using a metafictional approach that accommodates these two often conflicting aspects of Gray’s novels. Alasdair Gray’s novels highlight the construction of the author to frame a discussion around authority and the political implications of destabilising and reconstructing power structures.

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