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Category: Internet
Section: Sci Fiction
Topic: Castaway by Gene Wolfe
Article: Unfolding the picture slowly

Date: 02/11/2003
From: mikebailey2000


I really enjoyed the way Wolfe slowly unfolded the story, not letting the reader immediately grasp the meaning of the woman who was "stranded" with the man.
Wolfe's use of the unreliable narrator (who was so mocking and casual about this "dying woman") took some of the preachiness out of the tale, and allowed a sense of something grander and mysterious to swell beneath the surface of the words.
Well done!

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1.  Double narration   02/11/2003   FreeLiveFree    
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