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Invidiabile la sorte del lettore che affronta per la prima volta questo monolito letterario, unico per concezione e architettura. Castello-caverna che la natura ha divorato, o che ha divorato la natura, Gormenghast è in primo luogo un modo di vivere, di essere: è tutto. E dunque esclude per definizione il resto, tanto che chi lo abita non riesce neppure a immaginare una realtà esterna. A descriverlo non poteva essere ch...

Titus, der berühmte Held aus der Gormenghast-Trilogie muss die Zeremonien zu seinem 14. Geburtstag über sich ergehen lassen. Nach den nicht enden wollenden Ritualen überkommt den 77. Erben des Hauses Groan ein unbändiger Drang nach Freiheit. Und Titus flieht. »Der Junge war völlig erschöpft. Das Ritual rollte über ihn hinweg wie ein gefühlloser Triumphwagen. Dem jungen Herrn des vieltürmigen Reiches blieb nichts anderes übrig, als nach der Pf...

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Il reame di Gormenghast ha il suo centro in un agglomerato tirannico con le sembianze di un castello. Qui ogni antica bellezza si è corrotta in cupa fatiscenza: le mura sono sinistre «come banchine di moli», e le costruzioni si tengono tra loro «come carcasse di navi sfasciate». E qui, intorno al piccolo Tito, settantasettesimo conte, si muovono la gigantesca contessa Gertrude, la madre, dalle spalle affollate di uccelli e dallo spumoso strasc...

Mervyn Peake war ein englischer Autor, Lyriker und Illustrator. Geboren 1911 in China, wurde er vor allem für seine drei fantastisch-surrealen Gormenghast-Geschichten bekannt, die in den 1950er-Jahren in England erschienen sind und deren Fortsetzung sein früher Tod 1968 verhinderte. Grosse Anerkennung erfuhr er auch für seine Buchillustrationen, namentlich zu Werken von Lewis Carroll und C.S. Lewis. 1939 erschien Peakes erstes Buch «Captain S...

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A gloriously impossible realization of Mervyn Peake's soaring flight of fancy" - The Guardian

Apriamo questo libro e ci troviamo in un mondo parallelo al nostro. È Gormenghast, un immane castello, che nessuno dei suoi abitatori ha percorso in tutti i suoi anfratti. Un tempo, doveva essere pieno di tinte squillanti: ora è un intreccio di crepe, e le tinte sfumano fra grigio, verde lichene, rosa antico e argento. Vi incontriamo esseri disparati: un nobile melanconico e saturnino, settantaseiesimo conte di Gormenghast, che è il reggitore ...

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Originally published in 1946, this is a treatise on the simple art of pencil drawing, featuring line illustrations and text which clearly showcases Peake's love of the medium.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. "Peake's Progress" is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood. ?The White Chief of the ?Umzimbooboo Kaffirs, ? the early ?Mr. Slaughterboard, ? which foreshadows the Titus books, t...

Gormenghast - das mächtige, labyrinthische Schloß, der Stammsitz der Grafen Groan, gehört zwar keiner Zeit an und keinem bestimmten Ort, doch so, wie Mervyn Peake seine phantastische Geschichte erzählt, bleibt weiter nichts unbestimmt ... Im Gegenteil: jede Szene wird grell ausgeleuchtet, wird geradezu furchterregend nahegerückt. Bewohnt wird das Schloß von erstaunlichen Figuren mit ausgesprochenen Mittelstandsallüren, die der Autor so dicht ...

Gewalt und Gesetzlosigkeit breiten sich aus wie die Pest in den finsteren Kammern, den babylonischen Gängen, den kahlen, verlassenen Steinhöfen, den spinnwebverschleierten Dachböden Gormenghasts. Beunruhigende Ereignisse, unerklärliche Vorkommnisse tragen sich zu, verdichten sich und werden zu einer tödlichen Bedrohung für Titus, den jungen Grafen Groan, Herr über die geheimnisvollen Provinzen des Schlosses und ihre Bewohner. In einem grauenv...

The Gormenghast trilogy was one of the most unusual cult cycles of the 20th-century. In this surreal, darkly comic fantasy telling the story of Titus, 77th Earl of Groan, Mervyn Peake created a vivid world with strong characters enveloped in intrigue and fearful intent. Here are the three novels completed by Peake, and a fourth, a completion of a fragment left at his early death in 1968. Rupert Degas, an astonishingly versatile and compelling ...

Peake's Gormenghast masterpiece is now complete with this fourth and final volume, outlined by Peake as he was battling Parkinson's disease in the 1960s, and finished by his wife, Gilmore.

A new edition of the classic fable about the battle between good and evil, set on the island of Sark. Reissued to celebrate the centenary of Peake's birth.

A new edition of the classic gothic fantasy series, with a new Halloween jacket design.

Mervyn Peake (1911-68) is one of the great English nonsense poets, in the tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. His verses lead the reader into places where cause is cut free of effect and language takes on a giddy life of its own. This title contains the poems and illustrations previously published in Peake's "Book of Nonsense" (1972).

Showcasing another quirky side of the author best known for his monumental fantasy trilogy, Gormenghast, this collection contains pieces recently discovered by the Peake family From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat, Mervyn Peake's nonsense verse can, like marzipan, be enjoyed by young and old alike. This collection of writings and drawings has been selected by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, and it introduces a bewitching gallery of character...