>fucking white male >big sword >mysterious circumstances

>>10014671

It's pretty Kafkaesque in later parts when Severian is doing pointless chores in Thrax.

>>10014671
It's sci-fi, you mongoloid

Depends how deeply you want to read into it and/or credit Gene Wolfe with what you find.

>>10014675
It's "speculative fiction", you dip.

>>10014671
excuse fucking me?
did you just assumed severian/thecla gender?

>>10014671
I dont think it transcends scifi but it is fairly well written, and fun to try to piece together. The religious themes to me seem to have a mormon bent to them personally, despite GW's catholicism

>>10014671
>Does it transcend the fantasy genre?

Yes and no. A lot of the book's appeal is how it deconstructs/subverts/justifies a lot of fantasy cliches.