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Mervyn Peake

    Mervyn Peake bol anglický modernistický spisovateľ, umelec, básnik a ilustrátor. Je najznámejší svojimi románmi, ktoré pôvodne zamýšľal ako rozsiahly cyklus sledujúci protagonistu od kolísky do hrobu, ale nedokončený cyklus je teraz bežne, hoci nesprávne, označovaný ako trilógia. Jeho surrealistická fikcia bola ovplyvnená skorou láskou k Charlesovi Dickensovi a Robertovi Louisovi Stevensovi. Okrem románov písal aj poéziu, poviedky pre dospelých aj deti a divadelné a rozhlasové hry.

    Mervyn Peake
    Trilogie Gormenghast
    Gormenghast I-II
    Gormenghast 1-3
    Titus Alone
    Titus Groan
    Gormenghast - Im Schloss
    • 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 grauenvollen Finale fällt schließlich die unerwartete Entscheidung. Ein Fantasyroman voll schillernder Figuren und einem labyrinthischen Schauplatz, der skurriler nicht sein könnte. Mervyn Peakes zeitloses Meisterwerk ist das Vorbild für viele moderne Fantasyautoren. 'Gormenghast' ist von der Hand eines Zauberers geschrieben.

      Gormenghast - Im Schloss
    • Titus Groan

      • 506 stránok
      • 18 hodin čítania
      4,0(545)Ohodnotiť

      Stranger than fiction, larger than life, full of shades and echoes, Titus Groan is not merely one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of the imagination in modern English fiction, it is also a sustained piece of deadly irony. The characters are weird; the setting fantastic; everything about Mervyn Peake's masterpiece seems eccentric but for the stringent sense of reality which always seeps through the farcical, frightening antics in the mad castle of Gormenghast.

      Titus Groan
    • Titus Alone

      • 263 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania
      3,4(176)Ohodnotiť

      Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner of traveling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, stranded in big city, arrested for vagrancy, he longs for home. Nobody has heard of Gormenghast, few believe. Titus wants to prove it is real.

      Titus Alone
    • Full colour, re-originated edition of a forgotten classic by the author of Gormenghast. I am now many miles further to the North-East and am writing from a cave in a gaunt hillside. When Jackson and I sat down to rest we could see our footprints stretching back to the edge of the world...

      Letters from a Lost Uncle
    • Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was the author of the much-loved Gormenghast novels. This edition of Peake's poetry is published to mark his anniversary. It features more than 230 poems, where Peake emerges as a compelling poet, with an acute sense of his responsibilities as an artist, passionately engaged with current events.

      Collected Poems: Mervyn Peake