Gene Wolfe review:

Dennis Carlyle · 06 Apr 1994, 00:11 · from sf-lovers.1994.mbox

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From: Dennis_Carlyle at amsbbs.bc.ca (Dennis Carlyle)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe review:
Date: 6 Apr 94 00:11:16 GMT
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> Wolfe's prose remains fine and precise. There's a temptation to remark
> that it contains fewer of the deep notes, the magical resonances and
> ironies that throb through the original _Book_ ...  but many of those
> moments of the _Book_ went unrecognized or half- understood until the
> entire work was available for rereading as a whole. _The Book of the Long
> Sun_ remains maddeningly incomplete.

Thanks for the well-written review.  Do you know of any serious literary
criticism of Gene Wolfe?  I hear that Ursula Le Guin is, or has, put
together a book of critical studies of SF, and I would be surprised if
Wolfe was not covered in some form in such a volume.

Dennis Carlyle
Vancouver, Canada
Dennis_Carlyle at amsbbs.bc.ca

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