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I have never encountered an atmosphere like it. An aching loneliness that gets under the ribs. Stifling remoteness.

This book must be read all at once, preferably in one day, otherwise the cloaking atmosphere is easily lost. A break in the rhythm is disastrous.

What a mind Mervyn Peake must have had. His imagination was seemingly limitless. He was an intensely lonely individual. Utter isolation inside his own head. That loneliness seems to have found its way inside of this book. There is a desolation here that is painful like claws.

Boy In Darkness is Mervyn Peake's exploration of the horror of being alone. Of the terror of the animal taking over the human. Of the fear of being hidden away in some vast, bleak, silent land, where a monster of silence awaits to crush out your life.

This is an existential novel of the finest purity. By the time you finish reading it, you will have been somewhere else entirely. Not in your world. If find such abstraction beautiful. Like cold mathematics in words. And the the language of it all is imaculate. Mervyn Peake's icy prose in all its glory in the shadows.

What an achievement. ]]> Monday, March 21, 2011 03:28 AM Monday, August 4, 2008 09:50 AM Titus Awakes were you reading? My version, the Tusk edition from 1992, begins on page 355 and concludes on page 363 (nine pages). It has the single chapter and the list that you mention, plus an introduction and a preadventure that you do not.]]> Saturday, August 2, 2008 03:57 PM Wednesday, October 5, 2011 03:53 PM
I've just finished reading Titus Alone myself (my review here: http://tinyurl.com/6cpqxq8) and have mixed feelings about it. Certainly it's a departure from the first two works in the series. ]]> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 09:41 AM nothing ever happens.]]> Wednesday, September 26, 2007 01:02 PM