Gene Wolfe

Andrew Bollen · 16 Apr 2019, 01:19 · from 2019-April.txt.gz

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From: jurisper at gmail.com (Andrew Bollen)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:49:25 +0930
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe
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A shame. Thanks, Gene Wolfe, for many, many hours of pleasure.

A little thing I wrote somewhere else:







*One of my favourite authors. A conservative mid-Western Catholic, in truth
a reactionary, but ignore the politics: he could write like a big fat
walrus-moustached reactionary angel. He was an SF & Fantasy writer, because
he liked the genres and he liked playing around and subverting them, and
also (at a guess) because an SF&F cover on a novel ensures some extra
sales. But his best novel,
Peace, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008S0E5ZA
<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008S0E5ZA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i11>
was
genre-defying, maybe Mid-Western magic realism, or literary David Lynchism,
or something. Mysterious, elegiac, infinitely complex under a simple skin,
beautifully written. Partly it has to do with memory and its distortion.
Everybody is falsifying memories and histories, long and short, except the
narrator, who is dead. Rather than lie, he omits, and the narrative has
great gaps, their missing contents hinted at by a profusion of stories
which shed uncertain light on each other and on the record. Extraordinarily
deft.Anyway, he will be missed.  *

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 09:48, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

>
> Very sorry to hear it.  Though having not heard anything in the past year
> since he entered a care facility, I cannot say it came entirely as a shock.
>
> By chance I was shopping for Wolfe books at Amazon this morning when I
> heard the bad news.  Picked up a collection I did not have, although I have
> read most of the stories in it.  (I received a gift card as a birthday
> present, my usual habit is to browse second-hand bookshops and see what
> fate brings me.)  Reading some of them now.  Had not read Forleson, one of
> my favourites, in a very long time.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
> On 16/04/2019 00:52, Ab de Vos wrote:
>
> What a shock, but his life and work are complete now. I wonder how Marc is
> taking it.
> Op 16-4-2019 om 01:33 schreef Jane Delawney:
>
> Very sad news. Condolences to his family.
>
> JD
>
> On 15/04/2019 18:56, aaron wrote:
>
> I just saw this. I can't believe it. I pray for his family.
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:09 PM Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Tor is reporting that Gene Wolfe has passed away.
>> --
>> F.P. Kiesche III
>>
>> Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Does not
>> fit into a neat box or category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat,
>> square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of
>> Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the
>> Roman Empire.) Blogging at Bernal Alpha. On Twitter as @FredKiesche
>>
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