A new British fantasy novel,/Mordew/by Alex Pheby, promises to reignite
the transatlantic leftist fantasy imaginary, departing from midcentury
predecessors in tone and political aim, but not in magisterial literary
work and inventive quality. More/Gormenghast/than/Lord of the Rings/,
and indeed with a Peakean second sense for crumbling architectonic and
fleshly horrors alike,/Mordew/is a book with a map in the front that
doesn’t reinscribe the hierarchies innate to the Lewis-Tolkien legacy in
import fantasy and its perceived “Englishness.” In an opening that feels
eerily prescient, young Nathan Treeves faces pressure as his father dies
of a lung disease that primarily effects the working class. On the
outskirts of a glittering urban core to which he has little access,
Nathan’s father coughs up lungworms in vividly material Dickensian
poverty, “a writhing black mass of them, hundreds, glistening in there.”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mordew-and-the-new-leftist-imaginary/
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