/lit/ - Literature

Titus Groan is a genuine masterpiece, incredibly intricate. I love how the characters are simultaneously cartoonish and complex, and that there are just characters - no heroes and no villains, except maybe Steerpike. The book seems to start to devolve towards the last quarter, switching to present tense and doing that thing where a characters accent is telegraphed by writing, for example, "yis" instead of "yes." At least once the narration breaks the fourth wall.

is Gormenghast as great as Titus Groan? When does the dementia begin to show? The third book?