Gene Wolfe: Castleview

Mark Brown · 05 Jul 1990, 17:17 · from rec.arts.sf-lovers.1990.mbox

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From: mbrown at tonic.osf.org (Mark Brown)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe: Castleview
Date: 5 Jul 90 17:17:58 GMT
Message-ID: <10419 at paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
References: <11219 at pucc.Princeton.EDU> <STSSRAM.90Jul4202311 at toward.unocal.COM>

In article <STSSRAM.90Jul4202311 at toward.unocal.COM>, stssram at unocal.COM
(Bob Myers) writes:
|> >>>>> On 2 Jul 90 01:39:03 GMT, GACOHEN at pucc.Princeton.EDU (Geoff
Alexander Cohen) said:
|> 
|> Geoff>      I just finished Gene Wolfe's latest, _Castleview_, which
|> Geoff> concerns a family moving from Chicago to an old-fashioned town
|> Geoff> called Castleview, in which it is possible to glimpse a castle
|> Geoff> off in the distance. (Thus the name!)

Geoff, re-read CASTLEVIEW slowly, this time with an eye for Arthurian
Legend...you know, Camelot and all that.

I'm lead to understand that it's *very* subtly done, and to get some of the
references requires *extensive* knowledge of the Arthur Mythos...

Mark Brown   IBM AWD / OSF  |  "The tricky part is common usage."
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