/lit/ - Literature

>>20590325
>>20590348
SWORD
is a nonstop kinorun. Scene after scene is brilliant and cosy. Great and fun to read, at times heartbreaking at times wholesome. It is one of the first time you actually can feel Sev change. Book 4 is good too, and i enjoyed all of them
But for me, it's Sword.

jolenta consented

>>20186792
It normally glows blue but it glows red when there are jews around to warn you of severe danger

>>15226554
guess I'm a chad, I have a whole universe with several stories in it, but it's all in my head. I should write a book but I always end up daydreaming in front of a blank open office page.

>>13528115
Thanks for your ideas, a title referring to the world is good. The hell dimension where he is sent as a punishment would actually be the far future of his world where the hellraiser demons/godhand were unleashed after an invocation (it would be the plottwist). I'm going to sleep since i'm a yuropoor but i'm always in this general so i'll @ you if you're interested

If I want to show someone how enjoyable Wolfe's writing can be, what's a good book to start them off with? Would Latro in the Mist be too much?

>>13197664
That's where my line of thinking for "morally unreliable" stems from. I know well the connotations that the term "unreliable narrator" carries and how people take it to assume that the narrator is straight up telling lies and this obviously isn't the case for Severian.

What I feel is the case however is exactly as you said. Everything we read is filtered through the lens of Severian's own morals that stem from a world and society almost absurdly alien to our own, and his justifications and reason for his actions are likewise filtered through that lens.
Thus we cannot fully rely on Severian's own moral compass to dictate what is "right" or "wrong"

I'm not particularly good with my words so let me know if this actually makes any sense or just comes across as scattered ramblings of an idiot.

Has it been determined yet just how far in the future the book takes place in? I know that the Sun isn't cooling naturally, so it can't be a billion years in the future. But I also know the impression we're supposed to get is that it's a long, long, long time ahead of us.

One thing I've noticed about all the really good fantasy literature is that it reinforces the idea of monarchy. From Lord of the Rings to Book of the New Sun, there's a sense that a wise and good king is the solution to most of the problems in the book; Severian even justifies monarchy from a political-philosophical perspective in BOTNS.

Could it be said, then, that fantasy is a reactionary genre? This is one of the reasons Moorecock hates most fantasy, after all.

>>11709224
This whole thread is low quality bait, we're not even going to bother.

Tell me about this man.

>>10781233
Ursula K. LeGuin called Wolfe "our Melville," and I'm pretty sure BOTNS is going to pull a Moby-Dick. Wolfe is going to die, and then 25 years afterwards BOTNS is going to experience a major surge of critical and academic interest, and from then on out it will be widely known as a masterpiece.

>>9854749
>>9854760
>>9854782

Why must critiques of this book be this pathetic?

I was skeptical that the series was overhyped, however all the detractors only whine about Severian's relationships.

Getting laid made me feel like superman, it's natural for a character's demeanor to completely change when pussy is accessible and when your confidence is up.

Read the first two books and I loved them, worth the hype.

Gimmie some critiques that fucking matter yo. Get real.

> The library
> The Ape Cave
> The Green Man
> Jonas reveal and exit
> meeting the Autarch for the first time
> the description of terminus est

Those scenes are phenomenal, top tier fantasy and scifi in this book.

He fucked both of his Grandmothers.

>>7754495
Well if you were in the one thread from a bit ago, you'll click this one, which I fixed around the hood.