Already seventy -six generations by the castle of Gormengast are ruled by the Ancient Drink of Golden, whose existence is based on the ritual and entangled in them as a web. In these walls, “outbreaks of passions, not exceeding the scope of candle flame, flicker and go out at any grocery of time, for Gormengast, huge, blurry, everything grinds to dust.” The birth of a young titus was violated by the silence of the inhabitants of the stone hive.
The cycle of novels about the castle of Gormengast, written in the 40s of the 20th century, was recognized as English classics and entered the list of 200 best books according to BBC. He is compared with the works of Edgar Poe, Franz Kafka, Ray Bradbury and Charles Dickens.
The first book from the cycle of novels about the castle of Gormengast.
“Pick’s books truly complement life; as rare dreams, they bring sensations that we had not had before, expand our idea of the variety of human lives.”
Klave S. Lewis, author of the cycle “Chronicles of Narnia”
Mervin Pic (1911-1968) – English writer, poet, playwright and artist. Books …
Author
Peak Mervin
Translator
Ilyin Sergey Borisovich
Publisher
Gayatri, 2016
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