5/30/2023 0 Comments Titus groan book![]() Sometime after reading the The Castle of Otranto, with its memorable giant helmet, but probably quite a few years later. I can’t remember when I first encountered Peake, or how. With Peake, it’s more about the images – striking descriptions that stay with you for a very long time – for example, of one of the Mud Dwellers standing “in a pool of his own midnight”. With Vance, it’s all about the language itself, the way he uses words – you’re left with a sense that the text itself was beautifully, artfully arranged. That’s true, but there are substantial differences. ![]() I expected some similarity between Vance and Peake, who both leave the impression of dense, intricate language to which the plot is subsidiary. I was surprised by the similarity between Vance and Silverberg, but more on that (and Silverberg and Peake, for that matter) in my eventual review of Lord Valentine’s Castle. I’ve been (re-)reading Mervyn Peake, Jack Vance, and Robert Silverberg, all at the same time. ![]()
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