About Myself
Liam McIlvanney: James Hogg, 18 November 2004
The Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg
by Karl Miller.
Faber, 401 pp., £25, August 2003,0 571 21816 4 Show More
by Karl Miller.
Faber, 401 pp., £25, August 2003,
Altrive Tales
by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes.
Edinburgh, 293 pp., £40, July 2003,0 7486 1893 7 Show More
by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes.
Edinburgh, 293 pp., £40, July 2003,
“... Miller offers a ‘likeness’. The word is well chosen. In Hogg’s Confessions, the devilish Gil-Martin assumes the likeness of other men and penetrates their thoughts just by pondering their faces. This is close to Hogg’s practice as a writer. Impersonation, mimicry, ventriloquism: these are central to his work. Hogg forged old ballads. He parodied ... ”