Ultan’s Library

a resource for the study of Gene Wolfe

Category: Latro (Soldier) novels

The Book of Gold… returns to Ultan’s Library

Republishing electronic copies of Jeremy Crampton’s 1980s Wolfe fanzine THE BOOK OF GOLD.

Some Greek Themes in Gene Wolfe’s Latro novels

by Jeremy Crampton The moon is down Taurus was in the sky before: it’s gone. Time is passing. It is midnight and I lie here alone. Sappho. “Who writes? For whom is the writing being done?” So Edward Said began his essay “Opponents, audiences, constituencies and community”, 1 by asking questions he said were vital [...]