(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

[Marc Aramini]

If you can wait about thirty more write ups I will certainly address that issue at length!  Should be about ... (optimistic) three weeks- four weeks.

--- On Tue, 4/17/12, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> wrote:

> From: Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr>
> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 11:38 AM
> I don't completely agree -
> 
> yes, the point of view is usually very external, not much
> deep psychology, but they are mostly "adequate",
> in difference from caricatures of Vance or ivory maidens of
> Tolkien - and who of the SF and Fantasy
> writers (I mean men) created good female characters?
> 
> usually GW gives only hints to subtleties of women
> psychology, but they do not sound wrong to me
> 
> so, I'd say his art here is in the middle -
> 
> By the way, how do you (all of you) interpret the end of
> "The Doctor of Death Island"? Is the
> hero killed by his ex-wife?
> 
> Sergei Soloviev
> 
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> > Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> >   
> >> What are the "lows" of Wolfe, to your opinion?
> >>     
> > 
> > Well, one would be his female characters.
> > 
> >   
> 
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