![]() ![]() ĭifferent critics interpret differently what is actually happening in the novel, and another interpretation is that the memories of his old age are the fantasies of a middle-aged Weer, who is experiencing a nervous breakdown. ![]() One interpretation is that the narrator, Weer, is dead, and the scattered memories are those of a ghost in 2014, Wolfe confirmed that this was his intention. Despite this, the story of the novel is one of Wolfe's strangest and most difficult the narrator's consciousness at times seems to transcend time and space, as if he's narrating from beyond our plane of reality. Unlike a lot of Wolfe's work Peace is a standalone novel set in a somewhat contemporary time and place (as opposed to the future or an imaginary world). It is the story of a man from a small Midwestern town in the early to mid-20th century, Alden Dennis Weer, who narrates various memories from different parts of his life, including his childhood, early adulthood, and middle to old age. Peace is a 1975 psychological fantasy/ ghost story novel by American writer Gene Wolfe. 1975 psychological fantasy/ghost story novel by Gene Wolfe ![]()
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