The Shadow
“His period of creative writing spanned the Recession, the political crises of the 1930s and the Second World War and its aftermath. The word ‘spiritual’ is of immense importance when describing Gunn’s work as his novels invariably depict two worlds—the world of here and now and that in which the meaning of life and the essence of living are explored.
Most of Gunn’s novels are set and enacted in the Highlands of Scotland and the backdrop for The Shadow, published in 1948, is even more specific i...n terms of location there. The setting is undoubtedly based on that part of the Highlands where Gunn spent his most creative and productive years (1938–1949) in the hill country near the county town of Dingwall in Ross and Cromarty. Resemblances do not end with place; one of the most important characters in the novel, Aunt Phemie, is unmistakably a portrait of Gunn’s wife, Daisy.
The Shadow has another significance; it is one of two novels, the other being an earlier book, The Serpent, in which some of Gunn’s innermost feelings are indirectly revealed.MoreLess
Most of Gunn’s novels are set and enacted in the Highlands of Scotland and the backdrop for The Shadow, published in 1948, is even more specific i...n terms of location there. The setting is undoubtedly based on that part of the Highlands where Gunn spent his most creative and productive years (1938–1949) in the hill country near the county town of Dingwall in Ross and Cromarty. Resemblances do not end with place; one of the most important characters in the novel, Aunt Phemie, is unmistakably a portrait of Gunn’s wife, Daisy.
The Shadow has another significance; it is one of two novels, the other being an earlier book, The Serpent, in which some of Gunn’s innermost feelings are indirectly revealed.MoreLess
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