This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 17 Apr 2012, 18:38 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:38:04 +0200
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
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I don't completely agree -

yes, the point of view is usually very external, not much deep 
psychology, but they are mostly "adequate",
in difference from caricatures of Vance or ivory maidens of Tolkien - 
and who of the SF and Fantasy
writers (I mean men) created good female characters?

usually GW gives only hints to subtleties of women psychology, but they 
do not sound wrong to me

so, I'd say his art here is in the middle -

By the way, how do you (all of you) interpret the end of "The Doctor of 
Death Island"? Is the
hero killed by his ex-wife?

Sergei Soloviev

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
>   
>> What are the "lows" of Wolfe, to your opinion?
>>     
>
> Well, one would be his female characters.
>
>

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