Gene Wolfe: CASTLEVIEW

dani · 29 Aug 1994, 01:35 · from sf-lovers.1994.mbox

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From: dani at telerama.lm.com
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe: CASTLEVIEW
Date: 28 Aug 1994 21:35:52 -0400
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Gareth Rees <gdr11 at cl.cam.ac.uk> w:
>But turn the last page and start to think about it, and the nagging
>questions remain.  What exactly is it that Morgan has been hanging around
>Castleview for?  What motivates the fairies?  Who is the enigmatic King
>Geimhreadh supposed to be?  What is Odin doing in a book with King Arthur?
>And what is it all about?

<Shrug> I took the book to be a benign joke, a deliberate juxtaposition of
every vaguely-applicable stock plot device that Wolfe could shoehorn into
the book.  He was having fun, and doing so skillfully.  I don't believe the
book repays delving deeper.

Dani Zweig

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