The Sword of the Lictor
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Ratings34
Average rating4.4
Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wilderness Severian, the disgraced apprentice torturer, has reached his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms, where he must take up his post as Lictor, executioner and torturer. However, he flees the city and heads into the mountains. There he meets the Alzabo, in whom those eaten seem to live on, adopts a son only to lose him in battle and discharges an old debt to vengeance. As his exile takes stranger and stranger turns, he encounters fanged aliens who hide behind masks of beauty, and meets the mysterious Dr Talos . . .
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- “Think well on all the things we have not told you, and remember what you have not been shown.”- “I will.”
Is there anything that can describe this series better? I don't think there was ever an author who toyed with the reader more than Wolfe in this series. Steven Erikson is an amateur, dilettante, abecedarian, slacker, fraud in comparison. This series is really growing on me...
Quel contraste avec ce troisième volume de la saga de Gene Wolfe : j'ai adoré la première partie et j'ai eu beaucoup de mal avec la suite. J'ai continué, parce qu'il serait dommage de s'arrêter maintenant sans découvrir la suite et fin de la saga dans le prochain volume. Mais j'ai encore du mal à comprendre pourquoi cette saga est si appréciée.
Severian continues moving through his mad world, gradually rising in social standing if only he didn't find it so easy to make enemies.
Series
5 primary booksThe Book of the New Sun is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by Gene Wolfe, Roberta Rambelli, and 3 others.
Series
11 primary booksSolar Cycle is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by Gene Wolfe, Arkadiusz Nakoniecznik, and 3 others.
