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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... the humanmind.” Vladimir Nabokov, Conclusive Evidence “There's nothing worse than a labyrinth that has no center.” Jorge Luis Borges quoting G.K. Chesterton. Contents FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A NOTEABOUT CITATIONS 1 CATHERINE 2 AGIA.
... the humanmind.” Vladimir Nabokov, Conclusive Evidence “There's nothing worse than a labyrinth that has no center.” Jorge Luis Borges quoting G.K. Chesterton. Contents FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A NOTEABOUT CITATIONS 1 CATHERINE 2 AGIA.
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... there's no reason it couldn't be Catherine the Wheel. These are not unreasonable conclusions, and to be fair, Clute ... there are actually at least 16 such phrases. And so it seems unlikely that Severian's mother and his predecessor are ...
... there's no reason it couldn't be Catherine the Wheel. These are not unreasonable conclusions, and to be fair, Clute ... there are actually at least 16 such phrases. And so it seems unlikely that Severian's mother and his predecessor are ...
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... there important information to be sieved from the above? Well, Catherine's height does seem to suggest she is either an armigette or an exultant, since there is a relationship between height and social class. And since we're also told ...
... there important information to be sieved from the above? Well, Catherine's height does seem to suggest she is either an armigette or an exultant, since there is a relationship between height and social class. And since we're also told ...
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... there's “an antique quality about her metaltrimmed dress and the shadow of her dark hair that made her seem older than Master Palaemon, a dweller in forgotten yesterdays.” Valeria—as she's named—leads him inside, where there are “stiff ...
... there's “an antique quality about her metaltrimmed dress and the shadow of her dark hair that made her seem older than Master Palaemon, a dweller in forgotten yesterdays.” Valeria—as she's named—leads him inside, where there are “stiff ...
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... there being a child or children born from this union. Valeria, after all, is the last of her family and has already lost one husband. Apparently as well she and Severian never reproduced (Odilo again: “One would have heard of that, I ...
... there being a child or children born from this union. Valeria, after all, is the last of her family and has already lost one husband. Apparently as well she and Severian never reproduced (Odilo again: “One would have heard of that, I ...
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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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