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To: Mrs. Don-o

Gene Wolfe is a challenging writer, but if I can semi-hack it I know you can, you are way smarter than me. Some of those things you have written to bishops are just brilliant, in my opinion.

Gene Wolfe usually uses the literary device of an unreliable narrator to great effect, and skips around a lot. You have to work at it, but the result is well worth the effort, in my experience. His definition of “literature” is “...that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.” Plus, he wrote to Tolkien and recieved a letter back!

Freegards


72 posted on 05/17/2011 10:15:47 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

Thank you fior your kind words. I’m not a particularly gifted reader of most literature. For instance, I like very little poetry, but the few things I like, make me feel like the top of my head is being sliced open. Similarly with fiction: most of it I just can’t connect with, and I’m irked because I wasted my time in incomprehension; but the stuff I actually grab onto, I finger and sniff and dream about and carry around with me for years.

Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person.”

R.C. Hutchinson’s “Child Possessed.”

Shusaku Endo’s “Silence.”

So we’ll see if Gene Wolfe grabs me!


77 posted on 05/17/2011 12:50:02 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Do you mean now?" ---Yogi Berra, when asked "What time is it?" ---)
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