Reminder that if you don't consider this among the greatest

Him or Gene Wolfe?
I am reading both but am curious which people prefer

>>9054521
I prefer Peake but Gene Wolf is excellent as well

>>9054503
>no plot

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Are Peake, Wolfe, and Eddison the true patrician triumvirate?

>>9054694
>reading for plot

>>9054852
The Worm Ouroboros is unbelievable. Truly patrician

>>9055140
>reading for endless descriptions of walls

>>9055569
anyone read Mistress of Mistresses or the other books? I've only read Ouroboros, and I loved it.

>>9054503
Bloom is a prostitute and a philistine.

Would you say Gormenghast was all an allegory for how Peake was dealing with his mental condition? When you think about it the rumbling, decaying, castle could be an allegory for how Peake's mind was deteriorating.

>>9055994
That's interesting. His dementia was only serious when writing Titus Alone, but it may have been there for the first two, too. I've read he was also influenced by seeing the Belsen concentration camp just after the end of the Second World War...

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>>9054503
Peake was also a kickass artist

Titus Groan or Gormenghast?

Gormenghast has more intrigue and a satisfying climax but I think TG is the better-written book.

>>9057575
I agree. Gormenghast's ending was powerful, after so much build up. Fuchsia's death and the duel came in such quick succession, and her's being so random...

Steerpike remains my favorite villain in literature, and Prunesquallor near my favorite character.

>>9055140
>plebbing to rot

>>9054852
>>9055569
If any man doubt this, I am resolved not to be finished with him until I make of his head a football.

>>9055140
good post

>>9059561
Why doesn't Titus Groan have a plot, anon?

Thoughts on Titus Alone? I seem to be alone in thinking it was good, if not equal to the others

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>>9054503
Mervin Peake was a fan, somewhere between fin de siecle weird fiction and the later surrealists

>>9055577
And trees.
And Owls
And strange delightful Caricatures of the ghoulish occupants of the abode and their mountains of mildew encrusted gothic crap.
And Back-Stabbing.
And a Christening, which I momentarily misremembered as a boat race.
And a fire.
And a Duel.
Man, this is getting long actually, I'll stop.

>>9060785
Sepulchrave's reacted to the fire as any true /lit/izen would

>>9060785
>which I momentarily misremembered as a boat race

In your defense, I think there's a part where Titus does this by himself.

>>9061281
Dick move by Steerpike

>>9060211
One of my favorite books, desu

>>9061788
Steerpike is a peerless machiavellian dogheart of the first order.