Look, when a lot of female readers have expressed discomfort with The Book of the New Sun, we need to at least take that into consideration and respect that viewpoint even if we ourselves like the book. To go on about "But that’s what Wolfe intended!" is just going to come across to those female readers as mansplaining.
> This reasoning is like suggesting that Vladimir Nabokov was a pedophile because he wrote Lolita.
And that is a pretty commonly encountered position in lit circles.
> This reasoning is like suggesting that Vladimir Nabokov was a pedophile because he wrote Lolita.
And that is a pretty commonly encountered position in lit circles.