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| Original Title: | The Knight |
| ISBN: | 0765347016 (ISBN13: 9780765347015) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wizard Knight #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2004) |
Gene Wolfe
Paperback | Pages: 544 pages Rating: 3.74 | 4358 Users | 273 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Knight (The Wizard Knight #1) |
| Author | : | Gene Wolfe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 544 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2010 by Tor Books (first published January 3rd 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero.Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard.
With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre.
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Ratings: 3.74 From 4358 Users | 273 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books The Knight (The Wizard Knight #1)
Every Gene Wolfe novel is a f'n revelation. Consistently challenging and constantly rewarding, this first of a two volume series has been described as his most "accessible" and it's easy to see why. It's Wolfe's turn at high fantasy. And tells the story of an American teenager who quickly finds himself (without explanation, because none is needed) transported to a fantasy world and imbued with great strength and stature and the rank of "knight." He quickly falls in love (lust) and goesGene has gone for a change of pace and style with this one. It reminds me a little of James Branch Cabel in it's slightly old fashioned manner. It's a bit like a faery tale epic (this being the first in a series) with a slightly incongruous angle (to me) of the main protagonist being a 'modern day' guy who has found himself in the land from the sagas and is writing his memoirs to a family member who he thinks he will never see again.The story moves along with some interesting characters but it's
A surreal, singular book, that does a lot of interesting things in ways that have never been done before. (It reinvents fantasy and YA in particular, and a lot of the time there are chapters that would be whole books by other authors, and a few sections so inventive and strange it's hard to believe.) But rather than reviewing it myself I think I'm just going to link to this great review by my friend Eddy Rathke, which sticks pretty close to a conversation we had about the book and that I pretty
So after many serious non fiction works, I dug deep into my remaining archives for what looked to be a change of pace.Wolfe is actually known for his executioner series, which is an exotic, symbolic and extra strange take on fantasy.The Knight was supposed to be far more straightforward and it is.Unfortunately, its really a YA novel thats not even very good.The protagonist never grows or changes. He has everything given to him and simply walks through the story chronicling one event after
"The Wizard" is very atypical fantasy. Gene Wolfe has for decades become a classification of fiction within his own right. The man is absolutely a genius at writing unreliable, tricky fiction where reality often slips around at will.The Wizard is a great example of his ability to really embrace breaking through barriers of what is expected from genre fiction. Wolfe takes key visual elements and swirls them around in a blender and makes confetti out of them. Let's start with the world or worlds
Wolfe is a flawed genius. I read this book and it's prequel in 48 hours while I with laid up with a cold. It is easily one of the best fantasy books I have ever read. I would put it an a shelf next to Lord of the Rings and Alice in Wonderland. While it's achievements are incredible it's shortcomings are equally enourmous. Wolfe as usual has created an enormous and breath takingly realized world. One that is vivid and recognizable as well as wondrous and strange as fantasy should be.His prose,
The Knight is the first part of Wizard Knight. The Wizard being the second. He might have titled it Knight Wizard instead. It delivers in many of the ways Wolfe fans would expect, but offers a fresh feel to boot. It is an approachable classical fantasy novel. Its slow pace may not appeal to all, but its intellectual depth is characteristic of the author. Gene Wolfe makes use of deception again in the form of a first person narrator with a child's mentality, partaking in a fantasy adventure with
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