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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... attempts to penetrate theidentity of Catherine. Clute asserts—and not without marshaling his arguments from text—thatCatherine and Severian's predecessor in office,the old Autarch, are oneand the same. Thisapproach is based almost ...
... attempts to penetrate theidentity of Catherine. Clute asserts—and not without marshaling his arguments from text—thatCatherine and Severian's predecessor in office,the old Autarch, are oneand the same. Thisapproach is based almost ...
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... attempts to gain more information aboutthis mysterious second husband, Severian does so bymaligning himself, saying “He was a hard man forallI know of him, and a cruel one too, at least by reputation, though perhaps he wouldn't have ...
... attempts to gain more information aboutthis mysterious second husband, Severian does so bymaligning himself, saying “He was a hard man forallI know of him, and a cruel one too, at least by reputation, though perhaps he wouldn't have ...
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... attempting a hagiographic parallel here: upon her conversion Saint Katharine was mystically wed to the Infant Jesus, goldring and all.) On the other hand, since the character Meschia doesn't mate with Carina in the play, perhapsan ...
... attempting a hagiographic parallel here: upon her conversion Saint Katharine was mystically wed to the Infant Jesus, goldring and all.) On the other hand, since the character Meschia doesn't mate with Carina in the play, perhapsan ...
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... attempts to help, but as they seek to leave the burning tent (and foreshadowing his own injury) we learn the two can “manage nothing better than a limping walk.” Later, once again Severian tells us how “[Agia] was limping, and I ...
... attempts to help, but as they seek to leave the burning tent (and foreshadowing his own injury) we learn the two can “manage nothing better than a limping walk.” Later, once again Severian tells us how “[Agia] was limping, and I ...
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... attempts to explain to Severian, “I knew everything about it—the carving on the legs, and eventhe pattern in the grain of the arms. So much came back then.” (Sword, 82) Dorcas, in short, is realizing that she may be the product of an ...
... attempts to explain to Severian, “I knew everything about it—the carving on the legs, and eventhe pattern in the grain of the arms. So much came back then.” (Sword, 82) Dorcas, in short, is realizing that she may be the product of an ...
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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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