voici une interview de Gene Wolfe notamment sur son récit : Memorare.

"When you say that you hear stories better than you see them - could you clarify that a bit?
Gene Wolfe : In a way I hear the characters talking, but not at the beginning. At the beginning I hear the sounds of their voices: Severian’s deep, smooth, slightly melancholy tones; Master Gurloes’s hard, harsh, implacable vowels, his throat clearing and occasional spitting. In An Evil Guest, Bill Reis’s voice, deep and slightly rough, often a loud whisper, persuasive and slightly sinister. Or Cassie Casey’s enormous range: now cheerful and energetic, now the pleading of a small girl – the stubborn child, the aching sincerity.
What are more important are what might be called sound effects. In Pirate Freedom the creaking of the timbers, the slap of the waves against the hull, the mewing of the gulls, the voices of the men on the topsail yard: “Dirty weather ... dirty weather.” The dull boom of the sternchaser in the cabin under the quarterdeck, where Sabina shouts, “That’s the way, my braves! Mas! Mas!” while she twirls a slow-match. "

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