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Titus Awakes

Gormenghast, Volume 4 (The Lost Book of Gormenghast)

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Titus Awakes

Written by: Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy is widely acknowledged to be, as Robertson Davies pronounced, "a classic of our age." In these extraordinary novels, Peake created a world where all is like a dream - lush, fantastical, and vivid. Yet it was incomplete. Parkinson's disease took Peake's life in 1968, depriving his fans of the fourth and final volume of the series, Titus Awakes except for a few tantalizing pages, after which his writing became indecipherable. Or so it seemed.

In January of 2010, Peake's granddaughter found four composition books in her attic. They contained the fabled Titus Awakes in its entirety. Peake had outlined the novel for his wife, Maeve Gilmore, who had at last finished Peake's masterpiece.

It starts with Titus leaving Castle Gormenghast. Peake wrote: "With every pace he drew away from Gormenghast mountain, and from everything that belonged to his home. That night, as Titus lay asleep in the tall barn, a nightmare held him." Fans of Peake will delight in this new, wonderful novel, published 100 years after his birth, every bit as thrilling and masterfully written as his famed trilogy.

©2011 Maeve Gilmore (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Epic Fantasy Gothic Horror

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Finished almost nothing. No real tie up of first two books. Books 3 and 4 both seem irrelevant, the 4th the most: it is based on a concept, with scant incomplete notes, published much later and adds nothing to the story.

No real point to the novel.

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A really lovely, logical fourth and final submission in a series which relies on estrangement, solitude, and subsumption into “the real” as one grows up (grows out, grows tired of ties to others, grows old, etcetera). It would be an easy target, and seems to be an easy target, for many readers and listeners, but it follows Titus Alone perfectly, and it does not stray far at all from what makes Gormenghast so singular, so memorable. Extremely pleased to have finally given this a shot. Lovely narration as well.

Neither epigone nor usurper

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Just because you’re related to the author does NOT mean you are a writer. They should have left ‘Titus Alone’ and ended where Mervin Peak had finished. It was such a dismal, repetitive, meandering, purposeless, uninspired, ‘modernized’ hack job.

Dreadful

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