tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post8030535166793802181..comments2024-03-22T19:07:21.790+00:00Comments on The Wertzone: Newly-discovered GORMENGHAST novel to be publishedAdam Whiteheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-54746608221989783422010-01-14T17:48:41.708+00:002010-01-14T17:48:41.708+00:00This is interesting news, as I just read the first...This is interesting news, as I just read the first two Titus books this past fall, and plan on reading the third soon (just so I get the omnibus off of my nightstand.)<br /><br />I agree that the second book takes perseverance, but I'm glad I made it through.Salt-Man Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07042401821387954296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-31090344873234658282010-01-14T16:55:11.536+00:002010-01-14T16:55:11.536+00:00that Nick is not (me) Takrann Nick! And ain't ...that Nick is not (me) Takrann Nick! And ain't nowt wrong with the tag fantasy. Fantastic literature and fantasy? There isn't a difference unless a writer is in denial that he or she is writing fantasy because they associate it with some sort of stigma of artistic inferiority. But I digress...Nick Cirkovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16032740830320521883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-72847551750448713212010-01-14T16:44:26.370+00:002010-01-14T16:44:26.370+00:00While Fantasy is generally linked to superstition,...While Fantasy is generally linked to superstition, legends, fairy-tales, myths, epics, other fantasy writers... Gormenghast is influenced by a wider range of literature, with most of these fantasy influences being largely absent. It also doesn't seem to strive for a constistent secondary world, there are only these things that are of some poetic worth and use (the rest of the world is only vaguely implied).<br />I think there might be slightly more accurate categorisations to cover the expectations than fantasy. Perhaps Fantastic literature. :P<br /><br />Anyway, I've said how I see it and rest the case. Interesting news though. I wonder if the decision to publish that work was influenced by the posthumous publications of Tolkien's work.Nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-75670998651992787092010-01-14T16:33:41.689+00:002010-01-14T16:33:41.689+00:00I am a patient reader but was never able to go bey...I am a patient reader but was never able to go beyond the second novel...of course the writing is good and the universe in interesting...but if this got me through Delany's Dhalgren, I could not take Peake's Gormenghast. I wonder why no one ever mentions the potential for utter boredom in these novels (only my opinion of course).Mimouillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15610436050331906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-3809208246363608002010-01-14T15:45:22.986+00:002010-01-14T15:45:22.986+00:00GORMENGHAST lies firmly within the fantasy genre. ...GORMENGHAST lies firmly within the fantasy genre. The third book makes that clear when Titus ventures out into the world beyond and finds it a very weird and strange place indeed.<br /><br />There is little relation to Tolkien beyond the use of the secondary world, but it is often cited (by the likes of Mieville, for example) as an influential and landmark work. This does not require it or other landmark works and writers (THE DYING EARTH, CONAN, Eddison, Moorcock) to necessarily have anything in common story-wise as Tolkien.Adam Whiteheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-77282349100134428432010-01-14T15:42:53.664+00:002010-01-14T15:42:53.664+00:00Calling Peake's writing fantasy, as it is trad...Calling Peake's writing fantasy, as it is traditionally done, is probably a mistake. I suppose it's just another word for unrealistic in this case. The fantasy lies mainly in the unique use of language and general strangeness.<br />Anyway, I found that categorisation never made much sense and the comparison with Tolkien is purely coincidental.Nicknoreply@blogger.com