>>24100953
>he's an uneducated clod
Extremely wrong, he even sort of mocks Gurloes for not knowing perfectly ordinary words (such as syrinx, urticate and bordereau). As noted, he's just unfamiliar with life outside the Guild when first exiled; e.g. all his relations to women before Dorcas have been with prostitutes.

>>24103640
A number of these are about him justifying himself when he has to describe an event in detail, then accidentally telling the right version later in referring back to it, or vice versa. (The clearest example of the reverse is probably when he executed the woman who has been framed; he later refers to her as guilty, almost certainly because he's deeply unsettled by having knowingly executed an innocent woman.)

>>24105737
>Jolenta loves no one and does not want to be loved, she desires no one and wants only to be desired; which is her cautionary tale in this book.
Severian thinks she both loves and desires Dr. Talos (who, of course, is the only person besides Baldanders who is totally immune to her charms and uninterested). Admittedly because he's the means whereby she becomes beautiful and her happiness and gratitude become love, but still.

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Why does he get called an unreliable narrator? I read the books and he seemed pretty reliable to me.