Obras
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Alasdair GrayPoor Things
Alasdair GrayFrases célebres de Alasdair Gray
“Cuanto más vasta sea la unidad social, menos posible es la verdadera democracia.”
Original: «The vaster the social unit, the less possible is true democracy».
Fuente: Revue française de civilisation britannique, vol. XIV(1)/automne 2006: La dévolution des pouvoirs à l'Écosse et au Pays de Galles, 1966-1999. Volumen 14, Número 1 de Revue française de civilisation britannique. Editores Christian Civardi, Moya Jones. Editorial Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2006. ISBN 9782911580239 p. 133.
Fuente: Lanark : una vida en 4 libros. Volumen 1 de Biblioteca de la casa Usher. Alasdair Gray. Ediciones de Blanco Satén, S.L., 1990. ISBN 9788487538049.
Citas por obras, Poor Things
Original: «She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it».
Fuente: [Gray] (2014) https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=BKJOBAAAQBAJ&q=wicked+people#v=snippet&q=wicked%20people&f=false Consultado el 6 de enero de 2019.
“Además, no vale la pena tener una vida sin libertad de elección.”
Citas por obras, Poor Things
Original: «Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having».
Fuente: [Gray] (2014) https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=BKJOBAAAQBAJ&q=without+freedom#v=snippet&q=without%20freedom&f=false Consultado el 6 de enero de 2019.
Citas por obras, Lanark
Original: «You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes. I cannot give prosperity to people whom my rich supporters cannot exploit».
Fuente: Böhnke, Dietmar. Shades of Gray: science fiction, history and the problem of postmodernism in the work of Alasdair Gray. Volumen 11 de Leipzig explorations in literature and culture. Editorial Galda & Wilch, 2004. ISBN 9783931397548, p. 115. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=azhuFxdfCmIC&q=prosperity+to+people#v=snippet&q=prosperity%20to%20people&f=false En Google Books.
Fuente: Lanark: una vida en 4 libros. Volumen 1 de Biblioteca de la casa Usher. Alasdair Gray. Ediciones de Blanco Satén, S. L., 1990. ISBN 9788487538049.
Citas por obras, Lanark
Original: «Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot».
Fuente: Stevenson, Randall. Reading the Times: Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. ISBN 9781474432344. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=xH18DwAAQBAJ&q=the+booze-up#v=onepage&q=booze-up&f=false En Google Books.
Fuente: Lanark: una vida en 4 libros. Volumen 1 de Biblioteca de la casa Usher. Alasdair Gray. Ediciones de Blanco Satén, S. L., 1990. ISBN 9788487538049.
“Debería tener más amor antes de morir. No he tenido suficiente.”
Original: «I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough».
Fuente: Crawford, Robert; Nairn, Thom. The Arts of Alasdair Gray. Modern Scottish writers. Edición ilustrada. Edinburgh University Press, 1991, p. 74.
Alasdair Gray: Frases en inglés
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
Contexto: I asked the headmaster of literature, "Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to train your own kind than ours?" He said, "No. The emperor needs all the headmasters he can get. If a quarter of his people were headmasters he would be perfectly happy. But more than two poets would tear his kingdom apart."
"Five Letters from an Eastern Empire", p. 88.
“Work as if you were in the early days of a better nation.”
Frontispiece Variants on this epigraph appear in other books by Alasdair Gray; one of them, "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation", is now engraved on a wall of the Scottish Parliament building. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/holyrood/faq/answers/art006.htm They are all loose paraphrases of a couplet from Dennis Lee's "Civil Elegies": And best of all is finding a place to be in the early days of a better civilization. http://election.theherald.co.uk/homepage/electionnews/display.var.1370748.0.canadians_should_look_out_for_scottish_election.php Gray later devised a more distinct variant of this, because he believed the "nation" version should be credited to Lee: Work as if you live in the early days of a better world. As quoted in "Early Days of a Better Nation" by Harry Mcgrath, in Scottish Review of Books (28 March 2013) https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2013/03/early-days-of-a-better-nation/
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
“She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.”
Fuente: Poor Things
“This slip has been inserted by mistake.”
An erratum slip in the first edition.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
"Prometheus", pp. 208-9.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb.
"Prometheus", pp. 208-9.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
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