Gene Wolfe "The Knight"

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"Wolfe doesn't just rearrange the cliches of sword and sorcery fiction; he recreates the genre. ... A compelling, breathtaking achievement."
Publishers Weekly

"a magnificent adventure story, packed with invention, incident, travel, battle, ascents, descents, deceptions, catharses, false trails, true paths. ... The Knight is the polar opposite of bloated, interminable commercial fantasy."
Locus