Gene Wolfe: Castleview

Mark Brown · 05 Jul 1990, 17:17 · from sf-lovers.1990.mbox

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From: mbrown at tonic.osf.org (Mark Brown)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe: Castleview
Date: 5 Jul 90 17:17:58 GMT
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GACOHEN at pucc.Princeton.EDU (Geoff Alexander Cohen) said:
> I just finished Gene Wolfe's latest, _Castleview_, which concerns a
> family moving from Chicago to an old-fashioned town called Castleview,
> in which it is possible to glimpse a castle off in the distance. (Thus
> the name!)

Geoff, re-read CASTLEVIEW slowly, this time with an eye for Arthurian
Legend...you know, Camelot and all that.

I'm led to understand that it's *very* subtly done, and to get some of the
references requires *extensive* knowledge of the Arthur Mythos.

Mark Brown
mbrown at osf.org

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