Introduction and Breath

soloviev at irit.fr · 14 Apr 2011, 07:26 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (soloviev at irit.fr)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:26:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: (urth) Introduction and Breath
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Dear Jerry,

yes, it is me, but I visited this (Urth) list because I am
a long time admirer of (most of) Wolfe's oeuvre. Glad to see you
here.

(Nowadays I am still often looking the posts at Nabokov's list, but
seldom posting myself.)

Cheers

Sergei

>> From: "soloviev at irit.fr" <soloviev at irit.fr>
>>
>> Greetings -
>>
>> well, I am sure that it is my first posting to the list
>> (glad that I am here).
>
> Hi, Sergei.? Was it partly a mention of Pale Fire?that got you to delurk
> (if
> you're the same Sergei Soloviev I remember from NABOKV-L)?
>
>> I think an important example of withholding certain information
>> (if not lie) can be found in the end of the "Book of the Short
>> Sun" where Horn-Silk is visiting Urth with Jahlee and others,
>> and Severian as a boy is helping him to return Scylla (Cilinia) to her
>> coffin. There were several meetings with Severian, meeting
>> with Gurloes, Triskele etc. It gives some idea what information
>> Severian may withhold in the "Book of the New Sun".
>
> Like Editor B,?I'm interested in why people call Severian unreliable.? I
> find it
> so unlikely that he'd leave out the visits from Horn-Silk (who he thinks
> is
> Master Malrubius), that I've wondered whether that Severian is in a
> different
> timeline.
>
> Editor B, Pale Fire is one of my favorite books too, but when I mention it
> or
> Nabokov here, no one responds.
>
> Jerry Friedman
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