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Gormenghast is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure. Originally conceived as a single on-going novel, the series was ended by Peake's death and comprises three novels: Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959); and a novella, Boy in Darkness (1956), whose canonical status is ...
Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake’s widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groan —it is an enrichment and deepening of that book. The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
Titus Groan nos traslada hasta Gormenghast, un reino remoto y solitario en una especia de realidad alternativa que se nos presenta como un trasunto de una Inglaterra fantástica, que se encuentra dominado por el enorme castillo de Gormenghast en su centro, y que ha sido gobernado desde tiempos inmemoriales por la familia de los condes de Groan.La novela (y la trilogía de Peake en su conjunto ...
17 de ene. de 2000 · The glorious castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed for thousands of years. The dynasty is threatened by the charming and evil kitchen-boy, Steerpike. As he charms, outwits and terrorises the castle's inhabitants, only Titus, the young and timid Earl of Groan, stands in Steerpike's way. Drama 2000.
Gormenghast is a tale of mysteries…Gormenghast is a story of magic… Gormenghast is written with the mysterious and magical language… Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something other – other than this umbrageous legacy.
Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) fue un escritor, poeta e ilustrador británico. Se le conoce principalmente por los libros de Titus (también llamados trilogía de Gormenghast), que conforman Titus Groan, Gormenghast y Titus solo. Las tres obras existentes de esta saga son sólo el comienzo de lo que Peake concebía como un ciclo mucho más extenso, que habría de contar las peripecias de su ...
17 de jul. de 2018 · Gormenghast is the second book in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It follows the story of Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Groan and Lord of Gormenghast Castle, from age 7 to 17. In Gormenghast Mervyn Peake continues to use the florid language that characterised Titus Groan, take for example his description of the castle, ‘Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry ...
