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Gene Rodman Wolfe, né le 7 mai 1931 à Brooklyn dans l'État de New York et mort le 14 avril 2019 à Peoria dans l'Illinois, est un écrivain américain de science-fiction et de fantasy.

Il est connu pour son écriture très riche en allusions et pour l'influence de sa foi catholique sur ses écrits. Les œuvres de Wolfe, romans comme nouvelles, ont été nominées à de nombreuses reprises pour le prix Hugo, le prix Nebula et le prix World Fantasy. Dans une moindre mesure, son roman Le Chevalier reçoit le prix du Cafard cosmique en 2006. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. mai 1931 – 14. avril 2019   •   Autres noms جین وولف
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Gene Wolfe Citations

“Tous, nous aimons ce que nous détruisons.”

The Shadow of the Torturer

Gene Wolfe: Citations en anglais

“It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.”

Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)

“Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.”

Gene Wolfe livre The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.”

Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

““I pledged myself to show you wonders.”
I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.””

Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”

Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.”

Gene Wolfe livre The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.”

"Bed and Breakfast", Dante's Disciples (1995), ed. Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (2000), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“Prince of parable, I desire to see those gardens of lasting delight which Allah—the Creator! the Ever Beneficent!—reserves for the faithful. How am I to do so if I tell lies?”

"By lying to Allah, I suppose."
"The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (and What Came of It)", Arabesques (1988), ed. Susan Schwartz. Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction

“I pledged myself to show you wonders.”

I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.”
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

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