The Worship of Stone and Time - a review of Titus.Also interested to hear what you make of Titus Alone - I never got very far into it, and in hindsight I think that's because Castle Gormenghast is infinite yet enclosed, which is something endlessly appealing to kids - the house that you can keep exploring forever - whereas the infinite unenclosed outdoor world is a bit pedestrian by comparison. I really need to reread those books, was a teenager last time I read them. I also bizarrely just remembered that I first encountered the word "isthmus" in either Gormenghast or Titus Groan. (I'm reminded of something M John Harrison once said, along the lines of "if anyone were able to make a film of one of my books, there would have been no point in me writing it") Frustrating though it is, those images can only live inside your head, as soon as they're rendered they become dead. It's strange to think that something so dense and baroque can be best rendered on a black, featureless stage, but I think that it is so loaded with imagery that any attempt to replicate that is doomed to fail - the BBC TV adaptation, while kinda fun, demonstrates this. I'm not sure anything could ever compare to the written version of the Gormenghast books, but I've tried a few and the one that I found most effective was the stage version at the Lyric theatre about 25 years ago, with that fella from Trainspotting. Interesting to see you compare it to different art forms.
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