philosophical background for Gene Wolfe's Book of New Sun

Ben Martin · 13 Aug 2003, 15:50 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2003.mbox

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From: rsfmdocs at hotmail.com (Ben Martin)
Subject: philosophical background for Gene Wolfe's Book of New Sun
Date: 13 Aug 2003 08:50:34 -0700
Message-ID: <484bac5a.0308130750.34b502f1 at posting.google.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written

Dear All:

I find myself returning more and more to WOlfe's Book of the New Sun,
and am trying to read it at the "third" level of meaning (per Gene
Wolfe's scale as ennumerated in the BOTNS).

I find my background inadequate to identify many of the influences on
his thinking, although some are obvious even to me (i.e. the Bible)
and some more off the wall that are not so obvious I speculate upon
(Godel, Escher, Bach?)

Any suggestions?? I'd love to be able to read some of these
influences.

Ben
p.s. Are there any WOLFE/BOTNS devoted discussions online anywhere??

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