The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Gene Wolfe
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Bormgans
1/10/2015
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I once read that most of Wolfe's main characters aren't fully aware of the true nature of their world nor the role they play in it. This is for sure the case in The Book of the New Sun-cycle, and their successor, The Book of the New Urth. To a large extent, it is also the case for the protagonists in the three interconnected stories in this book, that predates Wolfe's most succesful cycle about 8 years, but already shows a lot of the same ambiguity, narrative techniques (most notably the unreliable narrator) and themes (like the theme of memory).

The first story (about 75 pages) (...)

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