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[Mo Holkar / UKG]

At 04:40 14/04/2009, you wrote:
>A nice discussion of "The Toy Theater" in _The Best of Gene Wolfe_:
>http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/2009/04/reading-gene-wolfe.html
>
>"...Does anyone have any better answers than this? I'm ducking a whole
>series of issues, I realise: is the narrator a reliable one? Is Lili,
>in turn, reliable in her claims about Stromboli? Why does the narrator
>give us so few clues about what he himself is feeling? (In this, he's
>very much like other Wolfe protagonists.) That a story of, I guess, no
>more than 3000 words can generate so much exegesis (and a feeling that
>you've still not exhausted it) is a huge tribute to the density that
>Wolfe achieves in his best short fiction."


There are quite a few advocates (including Dave Tallman on the wiki) 
of the theory that the narrator is himself a puppet, dismissed by 
this commentator. I don't buy it myself either, buit it is slightly nagging...

best,

Mo


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