philosophical background for Gene Wolfe's Book of New Sun

rikstroeb · 13 Aug 2003, 18:57 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2003.mbox

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From: rikstroeb <rikstroeb at soleil.com>
Subject: Re: philosophical background for Gene Wolfe's Book of New Sun
Date: 13 Aug 2003 13:57:06 -0500
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On 13 Aug 2003 08:50:34 -0700, rsfmdocs at hotmail.com (Ben Martin)
wrote:

>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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