The shadow of the torturer; The claw of the conciliator

Book of the new sun / Wolfe, Gene -- v. 1-2

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The shadow of the torturer; The claw of the conciliator (1983, Sidgwick & Jackson)

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Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 20-a de novembro 1983 de Sidgwick & Jackson.

ISBN:
978-0-283-99029-8
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Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. It chronicles the life and adventures of journeyman torturer Severian.

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Strange, brilliant, beautiful, epic

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The second time I read "The Book of the New Sun" I felt like I had a good grasp on the events of the saga as well as the characters and their relationships with each other. It was a gripping tale, a page-turner filled with monsters and adventure and politics and war and love and conflict. But there's still a high degree of mystery and fantasy in the book. Some of the events seems to come about as the result of some kind of destiny, the result of a prophecy perhaps. Or is it a projection of the author's beliefs? Gene Wolfe was a Catholic, and - spoiler alert - Catholicism makes no sense and has no internal logic. So maybe this book is no more coherent than that. It could be like a creation myth where things just happen because that's how the story evolved as it was passed …