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The first two volumes of Gene Wolfe's magnificent, award-winning The Book of the New Sun.
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
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2 éditions pour ce livre
2016 Editions Gollancz (SF Masterworks)
608 pages
ISBN : 9781473216495
2015 Editions Gollancz (Fantasy)
603 pages
ISBN : 9781473211971
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Une lecture très exigeante, autant du point de vue de la langue que des différentes couches de sens.
Je suis curieuse de lire la suite, car le monde est très intéressant et complexe, mais je n'ai pas été transportée par la quête du personnage principal.
En tous cas, une ambiance absolument "darksoulesque"