Re:Ends of the Urth
by dmitriid on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:11PM
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> Are we? Wolfe has stated in interviews that
Doesn't matter what he said in interviews. The third book is full to the brim with with thin hints or outright "we knew you were special, so we were searching for you high and low".
> Severian only starts to draw a following once he becomes autarch
Re-read the entire attack on Baldanders' castle. "The people naturally follow me" and all that.
> Did you go on to read The Urth of the New Sun?
I didn't and after the Book of the New Sun I frankly don't want to touch anything by Wolfe :)
> a well-established literary genre that goes back many centuries (the picaresque).
"picaresque: relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero."
The main problem is that Severian is anything but appealing.
Doesn't matter what he said in interviews. The third book is full to the brim with with thin hints or outright "we knew you were special, so we were searching for you high and low".
> Severian only starts to draw a following once he becomes autarch
Re-read the entire attack on Baldanders' castle. "The people naturally follow me" and all that.
> Did you go on to read The Urth of the New Sun?
I didn't and after the Book of the New Sun I frankly don't want to touch anything by Wolfe :)
> a well-established literary genre that goes back many centuries (the picaresque).
"picaresque: relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero."
The main problem is that Severian is anything but appealing.