![]() ![]() More to do with Wolfe's remarkable gifts as a prose stylist. The intelligence he brings to bear on issues large and small, but it has even ![]() The distinctiveness of his fiction owes something to his formal ingenuity and Myth, fiction, science, history, and other cultural constructs. Is transformed first into language and eventually into the larger structures of Perfectly suited for examining the moral and psychological ambiguities this work focuses on) the nature of human memory and perception, and how this perception Masterpiece, The Book of the New Sun is a torturer by profession-a role Of life's role within cosmic evolution the meaning of Good and Evil (and ofĪcceptable versus unacceptable behavior) in a morally and epistemologicallyĪmbiguous universe (significantly, the main character in Wolfe's four volume Grandly ambitious themes that include: the nature and origin of the universe and Thematically Wolfe has developed a series of Symbolically charged actions that are placed within landscapes so rigorouslyĭrawn and rich in evocative details that they seem to rival reality itself in Particularly noteworthy has been his striking integration of formal innovationĪnd thematic concerns, and his presentation of vividly imagined characters and Novelistic and short story forms, Wolfe's work is remarkably diverse. SF, fantasy, and unclassifiable fictions. Today it is clear that Gene Wolfe has already produced a major body of SF, quasi Moral, social, and epistemological issues are central features of all Wolfe's Ingenious reworkings of familiar SF motifs, and its exploration of complex Narrative voices and of an intricate web of symbolism and literary allusion, its Prismatic manner of exposition, its sure control of a variety of imaginative Displaying a blend of intellectual and aesthetic sophistication,Īn eloquent and poetic prose style, and masterful storytelling instincts,Ĭerberus established Wolfe as an eccentric but important new figure in SF. The Fifth Head of Cerberus in 1972 abruptly signaled an end to Wolfe's literaryĪpprenticeship. Undistinguished first novel Operation Ares, came out in 1970. Gene Wolfe's earliest stories began appearing in various SF magazines andĪnthologies, notably Damon Knight's Orbit, in the late 1960s and a generally On Encompassing the Entire Universe: An Interview with Gene Wolfe ![]()
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