Gormanghast and the Great Tradition
The excellent Tom Simon pens a learned and entertaining essay here: https://bondwine.com/2017/12/14/gormenghast-and-the-great-tradition/
Which is an answer to my essay here: http://www.castaliahouse.com/wright-on-elf-thirst-for-waters-beyond-the-world/ in which I has the question, Why in the world does anyone consider the Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake to be fantasy?
Please do yourself the favor of reading his essay for yourself. If you have not read his essays, or his fine books you will thank me for the introduction.
Here is his Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Simon/e/B00AR3EN7G
Allow me particularly to recommend these books, which are favorites of mine:
- STYLE IS THE ROCKET https://www.amazon.com/Style-Rocket-Other-Essays-Writing-ebook/dp/B01GK7KEOI
- WRITING DOWN THE DRAGON https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Down-Dragon-Tolkien-Fantasy/dp/0988129256
- DEATH CARRIES A CAMCORDER https://www.amazon.com/Death-Carries-Camcorder-fantasy-writing-ebook/dp/B00NG86T7G
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
