Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's <i>BOOK OF THE NEW SUN</i>iUniverse, 20 maj 2004 - 204 Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at the same time, like another masterpiece of fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, it's been deemed endlessly complex and filled with impenetrable mysteries. Now, however, in the first book-length investigation of Wolfe's literary puzzlebox, Robert Borski takes you inside the twisting corridors of the tetralogy and along the way reveals his solutions to many of the novel's conundrums and riddles, such as who really is Severian's lost twin sister (almost certainly not who you think) and why he believes the novel's main character may not even be the torturer Severian. Furthermore, and in essay after essay, Borski demonstrates how a single master key will unlock many of the book's secret relationships-all in the attempt to guide you through the labyrinth that is Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. |
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... Talos' play, Eschatology and Genesis, and the larger work which contains it. In this regard, letus now examine how certain passages in each help further elucidate the life and death of Severian's mother, Catherine. Inthe play's fourth ...
... Talos' play, Eschatology and Genesis, and the larger work which contains it. In this regard, letus now examine how certain passages in each help further elucidate the life and death of Severian's mother, Catherine. Inthe play's fourth ...
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... Talos' play, only expanded upon and with a change in viewpoint perspective (one of the Book's many recursive loops). But what about the woman Severian actually sees under arrest? Who, in other words, is the Contessa's reallife ...
... Talos' play, only expanded upon and with a change in viewpoint perspective (one of the Book's many recursive loops). But what about the woman Severian actually sees under arrest? Who, in other words, is the Contessa's reallife ...
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... hold, shegives birth toSeverian and Severa. Once again, in regardsto Catherine, the loop doubles back: westart with Urth's final days, we finish with the Nativity—by any other name, eschatology and genesis, the same as Talos's play. But.
... hold, shegives birth toSeverian and Severa. Once again, in regardsto Catherine, the loop doubles back: westart with Urth's final days, we finish with the Nativity—by any other name, eschatology and genesis, the same as Talos's play. But.
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... Talos's play. But whatabout Catherine's fate after this point? Apparently, the Hierodules don't haveher executed, but allow herto return annuallyto see her son during the Feast of Saint Katharine— perhapsas a reward for her eventual ...
... Talos's play. But whatabout Catherine's fate after this point? Apparently, the Hierodules don't haveher executed, but allow herto return annuallyto see her son during the Feast of Saint Katharine— perhapsas a reward for her eventual ...
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ASCIANS | |
DOMNICELLAE | |
FECHIN | |
NAVIGATOR | |
PRISONERS | |
MILES AND JONAS | |
BLACK HOLES AND GREENMEN | |
SEVENTEEN | |
ABDIESUS | |
SEVERA | |
THAIS | |
GUARDIAN | |
HETHOR | |
MANDRAGORA | |
MASKS OF THE FATHER | |
MISSING IN ACTION | |
THECLA | |
SWIMMING WITH UNDINES | |
WITCHES | |
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