THE KNIGHT BY GENE WOLFE | BOOK REVIEW

[@FellunB]

I'm a huge Wolfe fan, just discovering your channel, and enjoying watching your thoughts. I'd read The Wizard Knight when it first was published, and then again just earlier this year. I'm in a very small minority who hold the Wizard Knight as their favorite of Wolfe's stories. There's so much to unpack in any Wolfe book, and I encourage you to do what I did and come back to the Wizard Knight (and the rest of Wolfe) some years from now with fresh questions and thoughts. There's always basic questions of setting. What does the book tell us about Able's circumstances in the "real" world of America? Or about the world he finds himself in in the story? I like thinking about some of the larger themes. Two that come out most strongly here are: what does it mean to be a brother; and, what does it mean to be a Knight? Or to be a man?

[@LARS9000_]

Nice!