Written "after" Maturin's work (and dedicated in his memory), Sarah Perry's Melmoth is packed with the gothic hallmarks of its Romantic lodestar. Travelling between rural Ireland, India, London and Spain, the novel is long and odd and wonderfully weird. Maturin's novel relates the torments of its Byronic title character, Melmoth, who has made a pact with the devil in return for 150 more years of life, and is left to search the world for a victim to release him from it. Even if that's not quite true, the relative obscurity of Maturin's book is undoubtable. "A novel", as the protagonist of Sarah Perry's latest work suggests, that "nobody reads".
Written by an eccentric Irish curate, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a bizarre gothic romance.
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