I can’t think of anyone whose immediate canonization was as deserving as Ursula Le Guin’s
I haven't read enough of the post-1990 stuff to have a considered opinion -- although I think his stories & novellas continued to be good -- but there does seem to have been a shift away from the polish he gave to the prose.
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Right, but with Wolfe the prose is 1:1 with the protagonist’s understanding and observation. So maybe a better way to ask this is, why do his narrators start to become such dullards? Like, non-human in emotion and observation
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There’s something in his last book, Borrowed Man, that maybe glances at it. The narrator can only tell stories in the mode of hacky pulp detective novel, which means we’re yet another step removed from the events
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