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The Editors Feb 11
The Metropolitan

Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series is an acerbic image of post-Second World War vision, far harsher in its assessment than other contemporary fantasies.

Gormenghast is a model of post-Imperial Britain, and instead of looking back at past splendour it looks forward to future squalor: the Britain of the ‘70s and ‘80s, a grim little isolated island full of decaying relics and weird characters.
The Editors and Tobias Sturt
Feb 11
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2:55 PM
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