/lit/ - Literature

Why do people say Severian is a douchebag/sexist? Sure he's unreliable according to Wolfe but Wolfe thinks everyone is basically an unreliable narrator at heart. That's a point that I feel most people just gloss over in favor of their own hypothesis about Severian and his character. My favorite part is where he explains to Dorcas the value and necessity of torturing and executing criminals in the commonwealth in a very rational and lucid way that you rarely ever see, listing all the counter arguments that you'd expect to hear even today.