Ultan's Library publishes new article by Michael Andre-Driussi

Nigel Price27 Aug 2008, 11:39as archived

To coincide with the launch of the second edition of the Lexicon Urthus, the editors of Ultan's Library are pleased to announce the publication of a new essay by Michael Andre-Driussi entitled "The Death of Catherine the Weal and Other Stories". The essay, which was originally written in 1992 for inclusion in John Clute's proposed collection of critical essays on Gene Wolfe, refutes the suggestion made by both Clute and Gregory Feeley that Severian's mother Catherine was also the Old Autarch. It also examines the mystery of the Old Autarch's anonymity within The Book of the New Sun and searches for the true identities of some of the key women in Severian's life. The editors of Ultan's Library also hope to publish an interview with Michael Andre-Driussi about the new edition of his Lexicon in the very near future. Ultan's Library is an online resource for the study of the writings of Gene Wolfe and may be found here: http://www.ultan.org.uk/index.html. We warmly welcome articles for publication on the site and invite potential contributors in the first instance to contact Jonathan Laidlow at jon.laidlow at gmail.com. Jonathan Laidlow Nigel Price

Ron Crown27 Aug 2008, 14:22as archived

↳ in reply to Nigel Price

A propos new articles, here's another one. It's an interesting article with nothing particularly striking for seasoned lupines but significant for signs that Wolfe is receiving a degree of attention outside the SF world. The author acknowledges help received from two articles by Nick Gevers at the Ultan's Library site in the first footnote. Christopher Beiting, "The Divine Irruption in Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the Long Sun," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 11 (Summer, 2008), 86-104. Your bibliographic servant, Ron Crown

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Nigel Price wrote: To coincide with the launch of the second edition of the Lexicon Urthus, the editors of Ultan's Library are pleased to announce the publication of a new essay by Michael Andre-Driussi entitled "The Death of Catherine the Weal and Other Stories". The essay, which was originally written in 1992 for inclusion in John Clute's proposed collection of critical essays on Gene Wolfe, refutes the suggestion made by both Clute and Gregory Feeley that Severian's mother Catherine was also the Old Autarch. It also examines the mystery of the Old Autarch's anonymity within The Book of the New Sun and searches for the true identities of some of the key women in Severian's life. The editors of Ultan's Library also hope to publish an interview with Michael Andre-Driussi about the new edition of his Lexicon in the very near future. Ultan's Library is an online resource for the study of the writings of Gene Wolfe and may be found here: http://www.ultan.org.uk/index.html. We warmly welcome articles for publication on the site and invite potential contributors in the first instance to contact Jonathan Laidlow at jon.laidlow at gmail.com. Jonathan Laidlow Nigel Price _______________________________________________