(urth) Is Severian A Real Person?

[brunians at brunians.org]

Still, you scruple to call the narrator Severian.

Why?

.

> I recall another passage in another work, where the narrator says he
> often thinks he doesn't drink enough water. I enjoy these mundane
> observations.
>
> Lee Berman wrote:
>>
>>> brunians- The only difference between Severian and you and I is that he
>>> has a
>>> different Author
>>>
>>
>> I presume the Author of you and I is to be considered of an intelligence
>> too vast,
>> penetrating, universal, inhuman and mysterious to ever be comprehended
>> by us.
>>
>> How true is that of the intelligence of the author of Severian?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Gurloes is a tragic and interesting figure.
>>> He is father to Severian in a way that Palaemon is not.
>>>
>>
>> I agree. There are places in Wolfe's work where I am sure he is
>> referring to his
>> own wife and children in addition to his fictional characters. The part
>> where he
>> describes Master Gurloes as being tragic, a complex man trying to appear
>> simple,
>> someone who eats too much and not often enough, seems to be one of those
>> sort of
>> places.
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