Lanark. Life in Four Books

Lanark is one of the main British books of the 20th century, a debut novel, which has been written for more than 30 years and who appeared to the world of the new master of the first magnitude. “Lanark” is at the same time a novel of education and an adventurous chronicle, a mystical phantasmagoria and a book about first love, something similar could have succeeded in Joyce, Kafka and Edgar, if they sat together for Walt Disney, the Pinocchio script - in Glasgow. Armed with a box of Scottish whiskey. Here, a non-student-student receives an order for the painting of the cathedral, people in the afterlife are covered with crocodile skin, and government officials are passing an exam for a slow murder of hope.
“Lanark” struck me to the most stove. In my opinion, this is the best Scottish romance of the XX century ”(Ian Banks)