“Viriconium” is the last empire on Earth, a decadent city that thrives on its own past. “The Pastel City” is a work from the early 1970s, and I think you can clearly recognize the style of Moorcock, Leiber, but above all Jack Vance. But as in the classics of fantasy, I don't see in it the idea that would make it truly permanent.īeyond that, the four parts of the collection cannot be discussed together, because there are huge differences between them. His prose is impressive, I'll admit that - with the added bonus that it's already a pain in the ass. The Severian tetralogy), and even his linguistic inventions colour the world, I do not find originality in Harrison's universe. But while Wolfe makes perfect use of his bizarre imagination in “The Book of the New Sun” (a.k.a. “Viriconium” is a series of stories in an endlessly baroque style, which can perhaps be described most simply as starting from Mervyn Peake and leading to Gene Wolfe.
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