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Oh dear. Much as I love Peake (his writings and his art), such whimsy is not to my taste. Sadder still, the wonderfully rich language of the Gormenghast books is largely absent. Consequently, I find it hard to give it a meaningful rating, but have tried to judge it in its own right, rather than as a work of Peake.
Perhaps I should side with Tintagieu, when she asks
"Can't a thing just be itself without its having to mean something?"
Photo of Peake's painting of The Avenue, on display in the Guerns ...more
Perhaps I should side with Tintagieu, when she asks
"Can't a thing just be itself without its having to mean something?"
Photo of Peake's painting of The Avenue, on display in the Guerns ...more
I can't very well list Peake as my favorite author on the Titus books alone, spectacular as they are. While those books may provide a frantically laborious definition of 'idiomatic' (if not merely 'eccentric'), Peake is more than simply Gormenghast.
There is his art, his (somewhat abortive) poetic career, and his minimal forays into drama, adventure, war reporting--and here, light farce. Published the same year as Lucky Jim, Peake provides us with another English vision of strange and liminal fol ...more
There is his art, his (somewhat abortive) poetic career, and his minimal forays into drama, adventure, war reporting--and here, light farce. Published the same year as Lucky Jim, Peake provides us with another English vision of strange and liminal fol ...more
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