Under the Sphinx
Alasdair Gray, 11 March 1993
Places of the Mind: The Life and Work of James Thomson (‘B.V.’)
by Tom Leonard.
Cape, 407 pp., £25, February 1993,9780224031189 Show More
by Tom Leonard.
Cape, 407 pp., £25, February 1993,
“... The City of Dreadful Night was mislaid there. Its settled gloom is only part of the explanation. Dante’s Inferno, though gloomier than the Purgatorio and Paradiso, is more popular. Thomson’s inferno is a modern city where the sun never rises and sleepless people wander the dark streets without love, faith or hope. They are kept from suicide by memories ... ”