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Titus Alone

Yazan: Mervyn Peake
Seslendiren: Simon Vance
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A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels, considered to be some of the greatest fantasy classics of all time. At their center is the seventy-seventh earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom.

In this third volume, Titus turns against the iron discipline of Gormenghast Castle, abdicating his throne and setting forth on an uncertain quest—for himself. His pilgrimage leads to encounters with mysteriously omnipotent police and a battle to the death with Veil, a fearsome ogre with a body like whips and a face that moves "like the shiftings of the gray slime of the pit." In his quest for independence from his legacy, Titus successfully captures the universal struggle to "come of age."

This final installment in the Gormenghast trilogy is a fantastic triumph—a conquest awash in imagination, terror, and charm.

©1959 , 1967, 1968 by Mervyn Peake (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Epic Fantasy Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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“[Peake’s books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.”

(C. S. Lewis)

“A feat of storytelling unmatched in wit or imagination.”

(SF Reviews)

“Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly...It is a very, very great work…a classic of our age.”

(Robertson Davies on the Gormenghast trilogy)
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Published posthumously and suffering at the hands of an unsympathetic editor, Titus Alone disappointed many readers and baffled critics at the time of its release. It has since been polished and expanded with reference to Mervyn Peake's manuscript notebooks in an attempt to re-create the author's intentions at a time of failing health (though not flagging creativity). The revisions, which include the insertion of whole new chapters, clarify some of the obscurities of the original and make greater play of the nightmarish references to factories, machines and scientists. Although still by no means an easy read, the revised version has a greater logic and cohesion. Unfortunately, although Robert Whitfield concludes his Gormenghast series with the same excellent standard of reading and characterisation of the previous two volumes, he reads from the original version. Therefore, if you are using book and recording together, take care your versions match or, like me, you will find yourself leafing backwards and forwards in vain for the missing sections.

Caution: check you have the right version

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Mervyn Peake sadly deteriorated with Parkinson's disease in the later part of his life, was unsuccessfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy, and was unable to finish Titus Alone. The novel was compiled by his editor Langon Jones from early drafts, excerpts from notebooks and scraps of paper. The novel naturally feels disjointed and lacking in purposeful characterisation, but the journey of Titus into isolation and madness is a harrowing and disorientating one which made it impossible for me to put the book down. I think the novel needs to be appreciated for what it is, unfinished, disjointed, brilliant uncut diamonds from one of the most powerful wordsmiths of the 20th century.

Brilliant glimpses from a sadly deteriorating mind

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Well, I feel strangely let down by the 3rd and final installment of the Gormenghast trilogy. While all three books are a mix of fantasy and social commentary, the first two have at least a sense of purpose, something monumental happens occasionally, there's a definite feeling of a story unfolding, a journey happening but with the 3rd the whole story seems to me to be completely imaginary and esoteric. I couldn't place myself in the world of Titus in the last book and for some time felt I didn't know what was going on. Right at the end I'm still not sure and it feels it's almost a 'cop out' to conclude the trilogy with such a wooly and unsatisfactory ending.

Strangely unfulfilling

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The last book in the trilogy and although still very good, it is not quite up to the standards of the first two, having been finished by the authors editor after Peakes death. Titus' travels bring him to a world more like our own, with cars and modern buildings, where he is mocked for his claims that he is the 77th Earl and lord of a place called Gormenghast. The story drifts a little in structure, and the characters he meets are not as darkly charming as the residents of Gormenghast castle, but all in all this book is a must if you have read the first two.

Peake not at his peak.

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I loved Book 1 & 2 of this classic series but seriously, 'Titus Alone' - not genius, just off in so many ways....

Controversial I know

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