The Gormenghast Novels
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The trilogy, along with the novella Boy In Darkness, tell the story of Titus Groan, the 77th Earl of Groan, as he grows to manhood in the strange and isolated world of Gormenghast Castle. A lot of thoughtful people hate these novels for their plodding pace and intensely layered descriptive passages. Personally I'm finding myself enjoying them, 300 pages into the first novel, Titus Groan. Why? I think it's because Peake was successful in creating a compellingly real world for his readers. Dickensian characters, violent plots, a buttload of obsessive-compulsive behaviors, these novels will please if given a chance. Definitely a unique creation that has defied all attempts at classification, though the word "Gothic" has often been applied.
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