![]() ![]() In many ways life at Gormenghast is as complex as the Versailles of Louis XIV. The castle is almost a living entity, gaining it’s life force from the host of other characters who live within. The influence of this structure over the other characters is malevolent yet at the same time weirdly paternal. The hero of Titus Groan has to be the huge, overgrown and, it seems, largely derelict castle of Gormengast. ![]() An inanimate hero made of stone and shadows, grandeur and desolation. Despite a number of characters who perform an intricate ballet throughout the book, their stories entwining and creating a strangely complex but clear pattern, there is but one hero. Titus Groan is born at the start of the book named after him, and it would be easy to assume that he is the hero of the piece. ![]()
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