They are wet from swimming in the river Gyoll, though why they were swimming is not explained. The narrator introduces himself as Severian, torturer’s apprentice, and drops us in with him and three others: Drotte, Roche, and Eata.
I hope to read two chapters or so per day, and hope to keep it up for all four books - though I’ll take a significant break to read other stuff after each book. My plan is to put up a post after every chapter - they’re short - including synopsis, commentary, and a list of words that I had to look up. But spoilers of the sort pointing out something for attention because it’ll be important later are okay, even welcomed, as long as you don’t actually spoil future events. I would prefer to mostly pretend not to know what’s coming, since it’s fairly likely I’ve forgotten it. Spoilerwise: Although I have, as I said, read these before (although only once), it has been a long time. I’m sure there are many other fans of Gene Wolfe on this forum, so I thought having a thread as I progress would be a good way to get more out of my reread. The novels are also notable for their extremely abstruse vocabulary. It is narrated by Severian, the torturer’s apprentice (at least at the start of the story), who is a fascinating character but also an extremely unreliable narrator. For those who are unfamiliar with it, this is a tetralogy (comprising The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch) set in a far-future Earth. So I am embarking on a re-read of The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe.
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