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Nom légal: Gilmore, Maeve Patricia Mary Theresa
Date de naissance: 1917-06-14
Date de décès: 1983-08-03
Sexe: female
Nationalité: UK
Pays (pour la carte): England, UK
Lieu de naissance: London, England, UK
Lieux de résidence: Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey
Smarden, Kent, England, UK
London, England, UK
Switzerland
Études: convent school
Westminster School of Art
Professions: artist
painter
sculptor
novelist
short story writer
memoirist
Relations: Peake, Mervyn (husband)
Peake, Sebastian (son)
Penate, Clare (daughter)
Peake, Fabian (son)
Courte biographie: Maeve Gilmore was raised in London, England, the daughter of a physician. She was educated at a convent boarding school at St. Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, now Mayfield School. She then went to finishing school in Switzerland, where she learned German and French and became a good pianist. She enrolled at the Westminster School of Art, where she met her future husband, writer Mervyn Peake, on her first day. They married in 1937 and had three children. She became a painter and sculptor and also wrote short stories. She cared for her husband during his long struggle with Parkinson's disease. On his death in 1968, he left notes for a fourth book in his Titus series of novels. Maeve used these to create a related novel herself and published it as Search Without End in 1980. Her poignant memoir of life with her husband, A World Away (1970), remains in print today.

Membres

Discussions

Titus Awake à Book talk (Juillet 2011)

Critiques

Titus Awakes: A Novel par Mervyn Peake

The warning signs were all there. A much-delayed sequel to a well-loved masterpiece, "based on a fragment" by a long-dead author, focused on possibly the least interesting character in all of Gormenghast.

This is a tiresome book. Dull set-pieces featuring boring characters inhabiting a plot that goes nowhere, uttering god-awful dialogue that is both pretentious and wooden. I should have known better.

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gjky | 9 autres critiques | Apr 9, 2023 |

Titus Awakes: A Novel par Mervyn Peake

Its hard to know what to say about this one. The writing is good in places but can also be a bit monotonous or at least repetitious. It does resemble Titus Alone to a degree, although not to its credit being almost as random and fragmentary as that work.
However i enjoyed it more than my score might belie. My score is based on the quality of the writing but there is another level to it.

This is a work that was clearly written to be written, not written to be read. It must have been quite a cathartic experience for the author. This is a love-letter or a prayer and while i understood the ending i’m sure there where more allusions and reference points that i would have gotten more out of with a better knowledge of Peakes life.

While it was a bit of chore in places i do think it deserves a place as the final piece of the Gormenghast puzzle and i plan on buying a copy to reread along with the trilogy.… (plus d'informations)

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wreade1872 | 9 autres critiques | Jul 25, 2022 |

Peakes Progress par Mervyn Peake

Only read a few pieces in this compendium of Peake- but Boy in Darkness is one and it is great! A little side story of the Gormenghast universe.

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apende | 2 autres critiques | Jul 12, 2022 |

Titus Awakes par Maeve Gilmore

When Mervyn Peake died he left behind a handful of notes for a fourth Gormenghast work, which his widow used as the inspiration for this novel.

Left wounded and alone at the end of the third novel, Gilmore takes Titus from a world of darkness and pain and leads him to a place of peace. It is not the book Peake would have written, but Gilmore's love for her husband and his creation are evident in every line she wrote. Titus Awakes serves as a satisfactory end to Titus's journey.

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amanda4242 | 9 autres critiques | Jun 24, 2021 |

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