Mervyn Peake: Citations en anglais
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 68, section 1 (p. 730)
“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan
“To live at all is miracle enough.”
Poem of the same title (also on Peake's tombstone)
Source: Collected Poems
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan
"Each Day I Live in a Glass Room," A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)
“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan
“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 2 “The Great Kitchen” (p. 18)
Contexte: It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 1 “The Hall of the Bright Carvings” (p. 9)
“The paper is breathless
Under the hand
And the pencil is poised
Like a warlock's wand.”
Poem in The Glassblowers (1950)
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 37 “The Grotto” (p. 211)
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 69 (p. 743)
“Pompous as only failures can be.”
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 82 (p. 959)
“There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.”
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 32 (p. 555)
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 36 (p. 595)
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 1, section 1 (p. 399)
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 38 (p. 606)
Mervyn Peake livre Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 69 “Mr Rottcodd Again” (p. 396)
