Mister Pye - Couverture souple

Peake, Mervyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140033726 ISBN 13 : 9780140033724

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1972

Synopsis

Mr. Pye

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"The novel gives a clear sense of Sark as somewhere both remarkable and beautiful." (The Guardian)

"I am delighted to meet you,' trills Mr Pye to a fisherman. 'Are you, eh, you fat little porker,' the thug replies. 'B- you." (-)

"Peake has been praised, but he has also been mistrusted," observed Anthony Burgess in his introduction to Titus Groan . "His prose works are not easily classifiable: they are unique as, say, the books of Peacock or Lovecraft are unique . . . It is difficult, in postwar English writing, to get away with big rhetorical gestures. Peake manages it because, with him, grandiloquence never means diffuseness; there is no musical emptiness in the most romantic of his descriptions; he is always exact." (Anthony Burgess)

"The fable is cleverly and gracefully resolved and the final scenes are a joy to read. Peake's illustrations complement the novel very well and these, too, are examples of his charm, of his enormous illustrative range." (Washington Post)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Dapper and smiling, Mr. Pye comes to the island of Sark with a mission--to conquer evil. He immediately sets about changing everyone he meets, but is unfortunately prone to excess. When the struggle between good and evil becomes embarrassingly personal, Mr. Pye is forced to embark on a campaign of unparalleled sin.

Mervyn Peake, author of the internationally acclaimed Gormenghast novels, has created an extraordinarily imaginative story in Mr. Pye, his last novel and crowning achievement. In both the text and his own delightful illustrations, the author turns a moral battle into a hilarious and fantastical adventure.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0140033726
• ISBN 13: 9780140033724
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256