Un quatrième tome pour Gormenghast

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Je retransmets un message de Jean-Louis Trudel sur une liste d'info :

"La série inachevée de Gormenghast, par Mervyn Peake, s'enrichit d'un quatrième volume, tout juste découvert par le fils et la petite-fille de l'auteur, mais...
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'A fourth novel that continues Mervyn Peake's classic fantasy series Gormenghast has been discovered. It was written by Peake's widow, the late Maeve Gilmore, and recounts the further adventures of Titus, the 77th Earl of Groan. Here their son Sebastian Peake tells the story of how it came about.

As a boy, I didn't want to read the Gormenghast novels. I first read them when I was 20 and found them shattering. I was mesmerised by having a father who was so eloquent and loquacious and descriptive, but at the same time frightened by it – I couldn't understand the world he described. I read them again, at the age of 27, and he transported me - I fell for his descriptive powers."
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