Castleview
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788477020592
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: Valdemar
Pages no: 245
Edition language: Spanish
A fantasia: shades of Arthurian fantasy in small-town Illinois, ca. 1990. A minor Wolfe, to be sure. More impenetrable than all the other Wolfe books I've read, with none of the payoff of the Wolfe classics. It's an interesting experiment, with the occasional good passage, but at this point (1990), ...
Gene Wolfe is a brilliant and frustrating writer. I love his short fiction, but his novels not so much. Wolfe is extremely inventive and imaginative and I think the short story format forces him to be precise and focused, while his novels sort of go all over the place and then suddenly end.
Gene Wolfe is one of my favorite writers. His Books of The New Sun series is one of the greatest science fiction fantasy works of all time. He excels in creating strange exotic worlds and has a prose that is hauntingly beautiful. However his stories can also be rather vague and bewildering. Rarely i...
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