![]() ![]() "I started reading it and did not stop.The images conjured up the most weird visions. It's a profoundly enchanting world, but there are no elves or spells the magic is purely in the writing" "I discovered it at 15 and have been rediscovering it ever since. ![]() "A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination" Most readers are used to more watery offerings - this is thick, creamy and extra-rich" A word of warning, however: this one takes its time. Peake's lush prose and imagery are a pleasure to any lover of the beauty of the written word. "Dark, dense, baroque and hauntingly beautiful. There is no really close relative to it in all our prose literature. It is, if you like, a rich wine of fancy chilled by the intellect to just the right temperature. But the madness is illusory, and control never falters. remains essentially a work of the closed imagination, in which a world parallel to our own is presented in almost paranoiac denseness of detail. Peake manages it because, with him, grandiloquence never means diffuseness' there is no musical emptiness in the most romantic of his descriptions. It is difficult in post-war English fiction to get away with big rhetorical gestures. ![]() showing the poet as well as the draughtsman. ![]() "His novels, said Burgess, are 'aggressively three-dimensional. ![]()
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