Talk:Mervyn Peake
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What does Fantasist Realist mean? Google doesn't know; this is the only reference. Yeah, Middle-Earth is more mythic than Gormenghast, but I don't see how we can quantify that one's more recognisable than the other or "firmly" locate the Titus books outside fantasy unless we're defining fantasy much more narrowly than the common usage.
The trilogy is just that! The reference to the three published books as a trilogy is not erroneous! Oxford states that a trilogy is A group of three dramatic or literary works related in subject or theme. --^pirate 23:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- I have always classified this series as a fantasy. There's no magic or nonhuman races, but there aren't in Islandia (book) either. People only think fantasy has to have magic and elves because of Tolkien. Edgar Rice Burroughs' fantasy novels about Tarzan and about the cave people didn't have any, nor does Jean Auel's books about the cave people (although it depicts them believing in magic, you also see that a lot of their "magic" is common sense). To think that fantasy literature de rigeur requires magic and nonhumans is to limit the power of fantasy itself. --Bluejay Young 16:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Then it isn't a trilogy, because the novella 'Boy in Darkness' is about Titus as well.
Why is there no mention of Peake being lobotomized? The ECT didn't work, so his doctors performed 'lesion therapy' and cut up his brain. That's an important point to miss in the bio.
[edit] Pictures
This article has no pictures and is just a block of text. Could some one add some Fwed66 16:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
