Talk:Gene Wolfe

How to say that Wolfe writes for rereaders
"While the casual reader won't detect the unreliablility of the narrator and may become quite confused, the careful reader can find a deeper layer of the story. Therefore, it might be said that Wolfe does not write for readers, but for re-readers."


 * There's a useful insight buried in there but it really needs to be reworded more clearly, preferably by someone who has some experience in literary criticism. Lee M 01:47, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * (My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. -- Gene Wolfe)


 * A source for the quote above appears to be this interview. We should probably rewrite the unclear sentence above as an introduction to this quote. --Jim Henry 16:15, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I've taken a whack at rewriting as suggested here. I'm not totally happy with it but I think it does the job better than before, and I hope I've also brought it a bit more in line with the NPOV guideline. (I also rephrased the introduction of the "unreliable narrator" concept a bit.)

Interesting reference?
"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."

From. This worth looking into (for the 'outside the SF world' bit, I mean)? --Gwern (contribs) 11:05 6 September 2008 (GMT)

Cartoonist on Wolfe
"'Moreso than Stephen King, who I haven’t read that much of, Gene Wolfe is one of my favorite authors. He wrote this one series called The Book of the New Sun or something — a four-book series he wrote in the ’80s about a torturer who gets banished from his guild because he showed someone mercy, so he walks the earth and gains more power as he goes. Anyway, he’s written a shitload of stuff, and his newer books I don’t love — his newest one is called The Sorcerer’s House — but he just always introduces all this shit and it doesn’t ever quite do anything. There’s one series of three books he wrote with this character who can’t remember anything, so every chapter is a letter to himself, and you sometimes get the idea that Gene Wolfe can’t remember what’s in his books. [Laughs] Like, they kind of don’t correspond, you think it’s going to do this and it does that, and there’s literally no payoff. It’s almost like…if you read the thing at the end that tells you the background, it’s the most interesting stuff. There’s little bits of this really rich world, but there’ll be this weird mundane story in it. I think that was a big influence: suggesting something grand but telling something mundane. On one level, I could have gotten a little more grand with the actual story. I think that was part of my learning curve. But I like the idea that there’s all this stuff out there but you’re getting one little corner of it.'"

Brian Chippendale, http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/10/27/creators-review-corner-brian-chippendale-on-gene-wolfe/

Thoughts on how to incorporate this? --Gwern (contribs) 00:03 11 November 2010 (GMT)

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