Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Uncovering the morning star

“The ambiguity of authority & reliability in narration, in Scots or English, is central to Hogg, Galt, Stevenson, many others, but in Gibbon’s trilogy it is utterly deconstructed”

—Alan Riach: the influence of Gibbon on contemporary Scottish literature

2/9

https://www.thenational.scot/news/15550316.lewis-grassic-gibbon-uncovering-the-morning-star/

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“Not only did he invent a sentence structure that works like breath through the body of the reader, and a kind of Scottish English that’s simultaneously rich and spare, but [A SCOTS QUAIR is] a formally stunning and cunning work of art”

—Ali Smith in 2019, on James Leslie Mitchell / Lewis Grassic Gibbon

3/9

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/ali-smith-books-that-made-me

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SUNSET SONG: a Scottish Gift to German Readers

Regina Erich compares the original German translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR trilogy published in the GDR between 1970 & 1986, with its more recent republication in a unified Germany

4/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/sunset-song-a-scottish-gift-to-german-readers/

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“When Kleon heard the news from Capua he rose early one morning, being a literatus & unchained, crept to the room of his Master, stabbed him in the throat, mutilated that Master’s body even as his own had been mutilated; and so fled from Rome with a stained dagger in his sleeve and a copy of THE REPUBLIC of Plato hidden in his breast.”

Ian Campbell discusses the vivid realisation of a slave revolt in Mitchell’s SPARTACUS (1933)

5/9

https://asls.org.uk/james-leslie-mitchells-spartacus/

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Why Everybody Needs Smeddum

“The heroine, Meg Menzies, is Gibbon’s answer to Austen’s Mrs Bennet. In fact, she works as a kind of anti-Mrs Bennet.”

—Graeme Trousdale on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic short story “Smeddum”

6/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/why-everybody-needs-smeddum/

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Prof Scott Lyall discusses SUNSET SONG – a talk given at our Schools Conference in 2015

8/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NMdO47oy4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYcu-9sTwjGIqkJDYOImwgK

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The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
ed. Scott Lyall

The best contemporary guide to Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s/James Leslie Mitchell’s literature, politics, life, & work – available in print or online via Project MUSE

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic1/

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