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From: Dan Schmidt <dfan@harmonixmusic.com> Subject: Re: (whorl) [big spoiler] Narrative technique in _Return_, and trilogity Date: 08 Feb 2001 12:21:36 Adam Stephanides <adamsteph@earthlink.net> writes: | on 2/8/01 6:35 AM, Dan Rabin at wolfe-lists@danrabin.com wrote: | | > In _Return_, we pretty much get a chapter-by-chapter alternation | > between the homeward-bound story and the _Whorl_ story, told in | > very different styles. Homecoming-protagonist pretty much | > continues his persona from _Green's_, but as Whorl-narrator he | > adopts a very mannered avoidance of identification with the | > Whorl-protagonist: he never names that person (always referred to | > via third-person pronouns or as "the man who..."). | | Not quite. The third-person sections are not written by the | Homecoming-protagonist, but by the editors of BoTSS, Hoof, Hide and their | wives, as stated in the Afterword. I thought the Afterword said that they only wrote the last couple of Whorl chapters (after Horn stopped writing). -- http://www.dfan.org *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/ *To leave the list, send "unsubscribe" to whorl-request@lists.best.com *If it's Wolfe but not Long Sun, please use the URTH list: urth@lists.best.com