Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Laurence Peake (9.7. 1911 – 17.11. 1968.) bio je engleski modernistički pisac, umjetnik, pjesnik i ilustrator. Najpoznatiji je pos ciklusu knjiga Gormenghast, mada je ispravniji naziv Titus s obzirom da ju je Peake namjeravao posvetiti jednom te istom liku, ali ga je u tome spriječila smrt. Ponekad se uspoređuju s djelima njegovog suvremenika Tolkiena, mada je njegova nadrealistička proza inspiraciju prije našla kod Dickensa i Roberta Louisa Stevensona nego kod Tolkienovih studija mitologije i filologije.

Peake je također pisao poeziju i besmislenu književnost u stihu, pripovjetke za odrasle i djecu ("Letters from a Lost Uncle"), kazališne i radio-drame, te Mr Pye, relativno tradicionalni roman u kome Bog implicitno ismijava evangeličke pretenzije i konformistički stav junaka.

Peake je reputaciju prvo stvorio kao slikar i ilustrator 1930-ih i 1940-ih, živeći u Londonu i stvarajući portrete poznatih ličnosti. Zbirka tih crteža je danas u posjedu njegove porodice. Iako nije bio popularan za života, uživao je ugled kod kolega, a prijatelji su mu bili Dylan Thomas i Graham Greene. Njegova djela su danas dio zbirke Nacionalne galerije portreta i Imperijalnog ratnog muzeja.

Bibliografija 
 Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
 Shapes and Sounds (1941)
 Rhymes without Reason (1944)
 Titus Groan (1946)
 The Craft of the Lead Pencil (1946)
 Letters from a Lost Uncle (from Polar Regions) (1948)
 Drawings by Mervyn Peake (1949)
 Gormenghast (1950)
 The Glassblowers (1950)
 Mr Pye (1953)
 Figures of Speech (1954)
 Titus Alone (1959)
 The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (1962)
 Poems and Drawings (1965)
 A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)
 Selected Poems (1972)
 A Book of Nonsense (1972)
 The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (1974)
 Mervyn Peake: Writings and Drawings (1974)
 Twelve Poems (1975)
 Boy in Darkness (prvo posebno izdanje, 1976)
 Peake's Progress (1978)
 Ten Poems (1993)
 Eleven Poems (1995)
 The Cave (1996)

Knjige ilustracija 
 Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (Country Life, 1939)
 Ride a Cock Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes (Chatto & Windus, 1940)
 Lewis Carroll: Hunting of the Snark ()
 Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland 
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 
 Braća Grimm: Household Tales 
 Quentin Crisp: All This and Bevin Too 
 Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 
 Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 
 Balzac: Droll Stories (Folio Society, 1961) 
 The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb(1962)

Vanjske veze 
 Mervyn Peake, the official site
 Gormenghast, the official Gormenghast site
 Peake Studies, the periodical dedicated to Peake's life and work
 the Peake entry in the Literary Encyclopedia
 The Scriptorium: Mervyn Peake 
 "An Excellence of Peake" , by Michael Moorcock
 Gormenghast Castle 
 Self-portrait from the National Portrait Gallery collection
 Interview with Sebastian Peake, Mervyn Peake's son, on wotmania.com

Izvori 
 Winnington, G. Peter (ed.) (2006) Mervyn Peake: the man and his art. (London: Peter Owen)
 Winnington, G. Peter (2000) Vast Alchemies: the life and work of Mervyn Peake. (London: Peter Owen)
 Winnington, G. Peter (2006) The Voice of the Heart: the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination. (Liverpool U P / Chicago U P)
 Peake, Mervyn (ca.1950) 'Notes towards a Projected Autobiography', printed in Maeve Gilmore (ed.), Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake (London: Allen Lane, 1978)

Problemi
Engleski pisci
Pisci fantasyja
Ilustratori
Slikari
Rođeni 1911.
Umrli 1968.
Umjetnici koji su ilustrirali serijal Alice in Wonderland
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