The Wise Man’s Fear is available now from DAW Books. And somewhere, behind a locked door, the rest of the story waits.
On the surface, Kvothe experiences all three. He survives a shipwreck (the sea), ventures into the magical Fae realm during a moonless night, and earns the terrifying, quiet wrath of the Maer Alveron. But Rothfuss is too clever a writer to leave the theme so literal. The true fear of the wise man is not external danger—it is . El temor de un hombre sabio - Patrick Rothfuss....
This meta-fear is the final, cruelest iteration of Rothfuss’s theme. A wise man fears the anger of a gentle man (Kote, the innkeeper, is that gentle man, seething with suppressed rage). A wise man fears a night with no moon (the unknown, the unfinished story). And a wise man fears the sea in storm (the chaotic, uncontrollable force of fandom’s patience). The Wise Man’s Fear is not a better novel than The Name of the Wind . It is baggy, provocative, and occasionally exhausting. But it is also richer, stranger, and more sorrowful. It understands that the path to wisdom is paved with humiliation, not triumph. The Wise Man’s Fear is available now from DAW Books
