Quotations: About Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun: "FIRST CHAPTER -- 'Resurrection and Death'
'It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.'
No kidding. From the last chapter, XXVIII, of 'The Citadel of the Autarch': the title -- 'Resurrection.' The circle of memory is complete. This is what this first-person account of the torturer's apprentice Severian is made of: memory and its shadows, casting its darkness across the future."