Charles Robert Maturin's first novel, Fatal Revenge; or, The Family
of Montorio, was published in 1807. Maturin's dark tale of the
brothers Ippolito and Annibal Montorio is a complexly plotted
adventure, full of "strong and vigorous fancy, with great command
of language," according to Sir Walter Scott. Maturin's relish for
the gothic and horrid, so brilliantly exploited in his masterpiece
of 1820, Melmoth the Wanderer, here makes its first appearance, and
the themes that haunted the later novel find their initial
expression in Fatal Revenge. Maturin's unique talents of "darkening
the gloomy, and of deepening the sad; of painting life in extremes,
and representing those struggles of passion when the soul trembles
on the verge of the unlawful and the unhallowed," make Fatal
Revenge a compelling essay into the twilight world of the late
gothic novel, one in which both innocence and evil are ultimately
unable to triumph over the forces that overwhelm them.
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