From Alasdair Gray's unproduced Lanark film treatment Stephen Daedalus and Josef K. align their shadows. We follow that shape through Alasdair Gray's Lanark, a Life in Four Books , a 1981 novel that sticks the bildungsroman inside the dystopian parable as a blackout memory. In demonstrating the identity of these two genres, Gray bridges (at least) two islands in our experience. “Lanark” is a young man hanging out in a coffeehouse, book in hand, in earshot of a cliqu