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发表于2024-11-22
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow & Claw contains the first two: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which respectively won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards.
This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the marvels of far-future Urth, and who--as revealed near the beginning--eventually becomes his land's sole ruler or Autarch. On the surface it's a colorful story with all the classic ingredients: growing up, adventure, sex, betrayal, murder, exile, battle, monsters, and mysteries to be solved. (Only well into book 2 do we realize what saved Severian's life in chapter 1.) For lovers of literary allusions, they are plenty here: a Dickensian cemetery scene, a torture-engine from Kafka, a wonderful library out of Borges, and familiar fables changed by eons of retelling. Wolfe evokes a chilly sense of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun.
The Book of the New Sun is almost heartbreakingly good, full of riches and subtleties that improve with each rereading. It is Gene Wolfe's masterpiece. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
沃爾夫,吉恩(WOLFE, Gene)以《拷問者之影》(The Shadow of the Torturer, 1980)開始的“新日之書”(The Book of the New Sun)四部麯。
這四部大部頭長篇(後來還加上瞭第五部)組成瞭極為浩大的一部小說,講述一位年輕拷問者穿越陌生未來世界的漫遊。這個係列中的小說先後獲得世界奇幻奬、星雲奬和坎貝爾紀念奬。
深不可測。。。。
評分這真是我讀過的最奇怪的奇幻瞭。
評分這真是我讀過的最奇怪的奇幻瞭。
評分這真是我讀過的最奇怪的奇幻瞭。
評分這真是我讀過的最奇怪的奇幻瞭。
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Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024