L. G. Gibbon’s Sunset Song is, as said on the cover, “the Scottish masterpiece”. In a literary world dominated by the Central Belt —McDermid, Trainspotting, Stevenson—our pop culture overlooks the art of northern Scotland. And yet, Sunset Song remains the finest book I’ve read. I consider it Scotland’s best gift to modernism—that movement encompassing Hemingway, […]
If you are looking for a film to make you realise that your life, even with impending exams, really isn’t that bad then Sunset Song may be the film for you. Unremittingly bleak, this story of a poor farming family near Aberdeen at the start of the twentieth century features enough rape, beatings, incest, infanticide, […]
Theatre, King’s Theatre – Run Ended, Adapted by Alastair Cording from Lewis Grassic Gibbon´s novel The King’s Theatre was packed, albeit with few people below 50 years of age, for the opening night of this interpretation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s beloved Scottish classic Sunset Song. Lovable heroine Chris Guthrie yearns for books and learning, and […]