/lit/ - Literature

>>19874893
No.

>I’ll bring the Pringles.

>>13161429

>Makes you re-read his texts with increased pleasure
Nothing Personnel, pleb.

>>11017019
Make wayyyyyyy for Prince Wolfey!

>Re-reads your text

Nothing Personel, Kid.

>He gins smugly because he knows you will re-read his books with increased pleasure.

Gene Wolfe best author of the 20th century

>>8692409
B-but muh unreliable narrator
>mfw It was actally green the whole time

>>7283322
no but he stared into my eyes lovingly

Before all the sensitive types start in on Gene Wolfe's treatment of women in Shadow and Claw, I thought I would head off such criticisms by exploring women's freedom in Wolfe's Urth.

On Urth, women are:

1. Permitted to learn to read. There are actually a number of women in the narrative that not only can read but also can read and understand something akin to Latin. But, don't you dare call it Latin, because it's not. Gene Wolfe said so.

2. Free to wear clothes or not as they see fit. Much care is taken that women should be offered to wear clothes and even clean clothes when their pathetic nature raises our empathy and pity. Yet, a woman is also apparently free to disrobe and thrown herself naked and pleading to exchange sex for the life of a loved one.

3. Free to sell her body for money legally. Money? Good. Sex? Very good. Sex for money? Men have money; a woman, her sex. How can that be wrong?

4. Free to be beaten. That a woman should be suffered to live for giving offense to a man is a blessing onto her. She may be beaten and pushed down and she is not hurt much.

5. Free to be imprisoned unjustly. In this enlightened age of the far future Urth, women are suffered to live despite they give offense to men and the law of Men. The expense and time to imprison and persecute...err...prosecute a woman in light of her actual value to society is a charity granted to her and her sex.

6. Free to be tortured. That the Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence should seek to imprison and torture women clearly indicates that women are thought to be capable of speaking truth or even knowing truth. Similarly, this would also suppose that a woman has a soul capable of penitence or that a woman possesses a soul at all.

7. Free to be publicly maimed and executed. The branding and public execution of a woman suggests the physical vessel of the woman's body contains a space for moral instruction through ritualized excruciation and killing. A woman is no mere animal that can be killed or beaten without conscience. Her body and her life are valued enough to bring forth a physical and moral revulsion to a public branding and execution that is not only a moment of moral teaching but also Thanatonic catharsis.

8. Free to be raped in prison. Make no mistake. In past ages a woman in captivity was the rape toy of every guard and low level official in the prison system. Under the care of the Order, a woman may only be raped as a form of torture by the head inquisitor or his designee. She may be bartered amongst the inquisitor and his inferiors, but she shall not be abused by any other men.


These are only some of the many freedoms that women enjoy in the world of Urth so lovingly and intellectually crafted by Gene Wolfe. I for one salute his feminist spirit and his magnanimity to grant women a dignified and full existence in the world of his own creation.

>>6818437
you sound like a boring and pretentious jack ass.

>>6805989
lmaoing at your life

Why is he so smug?

>>6671181

Is he a misogynist? I'm wondering because I came across a number of troubling gender binaries in BOTNS, I'd like to write it off as Severians subjective POV, but from what I've heard that isn't the case.

How mad does he make you, /lit/?

Why does he trigger you so hard?

Why can't you accept that a white, Catholic, conservative, genre writer is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century?

Why, /lit/? Why do you hate him?

Also, what have you read from him?

>Stay mad, faggots.

I'd like to believe BOTNS's neckbeardish misogyny was a product of Severian's subjective point of view, but too many other characters subscribe too or act out misogynistic principles for it to be a coincidence. Should I expect this element in his other works?

When did he become a meme?

DUDE CATHOLIC ALLEGORIES LMAO

>>6526485

>>6523776
[smug internally]

Is this fat fuck as good as everyone says he is? I fucking hated American Gods, will I hate the genre fiction shite he makes too?