![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last year John Coulthart dug out his Gormenghast box on news of plans to publish a fourth book, Titus Awakes, written by Peake’s widow Maeve Gilmore. Jones wrote that the factory in Titus Alone is “a powerful expression of that evil which attained for Peake its supreme manifestations when, having been commissioned as a war artist, he entered Belsen at the end of the war”.Īccording to Jones: “Peake seemed to regard evil and tragedy as a tangible force, and the book reflects a struggle that was taking place in reality, when Peake himself was facing a horror more dreadful and more protracted than that endured by Titus, and to which, after ten years, he succumbed.” Titus Alone carried a note by Langdon Jones, who reconstructed the phantasmogoric third book in line with Peake’s wishes (the onset of early Alzheimer’s rendered the writer incapable of resisting changes made by publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode when it first came out). Detail of Fuschia, daughter of Lord Sepulchrave and Countess Gertrude by Mervyn Peake ![]()
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