Remember Me

'King Ludwig has fascinated me ever since I was a child, yet fascination is not quite the right word. Fellow-feeling would be the proper phrase…' David Stacton, 1957 With his fourth published novel – and his first on historical themes and personages – David Stacton's writing career took a decisive turn.

Remember Me, over which he laboured for four years, is an extraordinarily vivid and felt portrait of the infamous Ludwig II of Bavaria, evoking with assurance the strange and poetic landscape that shaped him. Stacton described the book in genesis to his editor as 'a study in madness, of the regal temperament and its reflexes, pushed to that point when it has nothing but the past to govern.' 'A tour de force…An extraordinary feat of dreamlike identification. The compression is masterly.'

Observer '[Stacton's] prose, alternating… between stabbing vigour and florid ornament, powerfully suggests the frustrations of that unhappy spirit.'

Times Literary Supplement