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Archives for the ‘Fifth Head of Cerberus’ Category

Desanctifying Victor Trenchard: some notes on Peter Wright’s “Confounding the Skin and the Mask”

Posted by Jonathan • May 24th, 2002 • Category: Articles, Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe

by Robert Borski
I’ve now had the opportunity to read Peter Wright’s “Confounding the Skin and the Mask” several times and it continues to generate much thought.


Confounding the Skin and the Mask: Gene Wolfe’s The Fifth Head of Cerberus and the Politics of Ambiguity

Posted by Jonathan • Jan 15th, 2002 • Category: Articles, Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe

by Peter Wright
Since its publication in 1972, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe’s collection of three inter-linked novellas, has earned a reputation for being the author’s most perplexing single volume. Such a reputation is entirely justified since ambiguity is [...]


The Fifth Head of Cerberus reviewed

Posted by Jonathan • Aug 28th, 2001 • Category: Book Reviews, Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe