/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/, I've noticed there aren't any threads about The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, so I thought I would start one to go with the others.
t. unreliable narrator

>>10711398
give me a quick rundown

>>10190667
>Book of the New Sun
ftfy

>>7966822
>>7966822

>>7527559

>>7521695
problem desu senpai?

>>7235552
Its not a meme

>>7235067

>but the pacing was jarring and it wasn't "satisfying" to read-- barely anything

>>7120776

>>7096686
We got another one

The real question is: what would he have thought of Wolfe?

Why hasn't Wolfe been adapted to film or television?

http://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9780765381149

>science fiction and fantasy cannot be literature

/lit/ hasn't discussed Wolfe lately, what gives?

Forget something OP?

A fuligin cloak

A fuligan cloak

>The gods own this world, not we. We are but landless men, even the most powerful king. The gods permit us to till their fields, then take our crop. We meet and love, someone builds a tomb for us, perhaps. It does not matter–someone else will rob it, and the winds puff away our dust; then we shall be forgotten. For me it is no different, only faster; but I have written in my scroll how Pharetra smiled at me. For as long as the papyrus is preserved she will be here, though even little Io is only brown dust sobbing down the night wind with all the rest.

>i get why people would say hes not the greatest living writer

>Afterwards they talked about it sometimes and thought about it often; but it was not until much later (when it was time for the long, long vacation that stretches from the week before Christmas to the beginning of the new semester in January, and they would have to separate for nearly a month) that they discovered Dr. Insula had not been mistaken about the island after all.

>Gene Wolfe has submitted 20 short stories to The New Yorker, only 1 has been accepted and published
>he sent it in a group with 5 others
>in the rejection letter he received for the other 5 short stories the editor informed him he had wanted another one of the stories
>but was overruled