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Alasdair Gray
“...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.”
Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray
“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
Alasdair Gray

2281 Magic Realism — 1032 members — last activity Jul 04, 2025 11:47AM
Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
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