(urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Mon Dec 6 17:15:47 PST 2010


It had to be the translator---who usually functions as an editor---who 
introduced the titles and, obviously, the epigraphs.

Not Severian. Some guy named G.W.

On 12/6/2010 4:01 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> From: "Ryan Dunn" <ryan at liftingfaces.com>
>> Do we know whether Severian titled the chapters of his own tome? I 
>> had never thought of that.
>
> It's a tricky question IMO.  Logically you'd expect that Severian 
> titled the chapters, but somehow chapter titles don't feel like they 
> are so strongly in the narrator's voice.  Still, I'm prepared to 
> believe they are Severians. Perhaps it doesn't tell us much anyway, as 
> he wrote the book long afterwards and presumably figured out who the 
> boatman was talking about,
>
> Even more problematic for me are the character lists at the start of 
> the Long and Short Sun books.  Logically, again, these should have 
> been written by Horn, but I find it hard not to look for Gene Wolfe's 
> voice there.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
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