Day: July 9 2022

Hallucinated and imaginative painter, multifaceted and visionary artist, forced by continuous nervous breakdowns to prolonged stays in nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, Mervyn Peake entrusts the written word with the task of exorcising the dark obsessions that will eventually devour him. On the stormy sea of ​​a dreamlike universe both nourished and threatened by the excesses of a self-destructive insanity, the arabesques, acrobatic architectures of the castle of Gormenghast, monstrous, tangled, gigantic concretion of the uncontrollable fears that grip the soul of the English writer.