Titus Groan is a novel without a contrived road-map, and it is as much high literature as it is fantasy. As strange as the novel is, it feels more real than most fantasy. The characters are bizarrely entertaining, and the challenges they face are, if not quite the all-encompassing fight for civilization, nonetheless poignant and intriguing.
In its weird way, it's every bit as rich as Tolkien or Rowling. With that said, Titus Groan is a fantasy masterpiece. It's not something that an average teenage fantasy fan will enjoy. The action is sparse, the language is thick, and the world is just sort of weird. Titus Groan doesn't have a grand good vs evil narrative, there is no sword play, nor wizards, nor damsels in distress, nor teenager-saves-the-world narrative. Many readers, and especially readers of fantasy, get very comfortable with the presence of cliches, and this book just doesn't give them any. I completely understand why a lot of readers would give this book a low rating. In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream - lush, fantastical, vivid a symbol of dark struggle.Ī great book ,no cliches, worth the effort Winter's white brilliance on a thousand turrets and summer's torpor among walls that crumble." Child-inheritor of the spring breeze that blow in from the jarl forests and of the autumn misery in petal, scale, and wing. And then, he is crowned, and called, "Child-inheritor of the rivers, of the Tower of Flints and the dark recesses beneath cold stairways and the sunny summer lawns. By his christening, he learns from his much older sisters that epileptic fits are "common at his age." He also learns that they don't like his mother. Titus Groan is sent away to be raised by a wet nurse, with only a gold ring from his mother, and ordered to not be brought back until the age of six. In this first volume, the Gormenghast Castle, and the noble family who inhabits it, are introduced, along with the infant firstborn son of the Lord and Countess. At the center of everything is the 77th Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom. This trilogy, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. In Volume 1 of the classic Gormenghast Trilogy, a doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of Gormenghast Castle.
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