Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN - Softcover

Borski, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595317294 ISBN 13: 9780595317295

Publisher: iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at the same time, like another masterpiece of fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, it's been deemed endlessly complex and filled with impenetrable mysteries. Now, however, in the first book-length investigation of Wolfe's literary puzzlebox, Robert Borski takes you inside the twisting corridors of the tetralogy and along the way reveals his solutions to many of the novel's conundrums and riddles, such as who really is Severian's lost twin sister (almost certainly not who you think) and why he believes the novel's main character may not even be the torturer Severian. Furthermore, and in essay after essay, Borski demonstrates how a single master key will unlock many of the book's secret relationships-all in the attempt to guide you through the labyrinth that is Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Borski, in addition to writing the entry for Gene Wolfe in the recent Supernatural Fiction Writers, has penned a series of essays about Wolfe?s novels for The New York Review of Science Fiction. He continues to work out of Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595317294
• ISBN 13: 9780595317295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204