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| Original Title: | The Deptford Trilogy |
| ISBN: | 0140118594 (ISBN13: 9780140118599) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Deptford Trilogy #1–3 |
Robertson Davies
Paperback | Pages: 874 pages Rating: 4.32 | 7531 Users | 371 Reviews
Be Specific About Containing Books The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy #1–3)
| Title | : | The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy #1–3) |
| Author | : | Robertson Davies |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 874 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1983 by Penguin (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Cultural. Canada |
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How do I even begin this? I spent about two weeks reading this and that's a lot of time for people to be asking: "so what is it about?" It's usually non-readers who ask such questions because readers know better than to ask what a 800 page book is about. But I thought about it and decided that it was mostly about subjectivity of experience. Not that it made sense to anyone who asked. It was three books and each one of them a different kind of wonderful. It all starts in a small village of Deptford, Ontario. Fifth Business was like a better version of Prayer for Owen Meany. There were saints, magic and a lot of symbolism but not as heavy handed as in John Irving’s books. It’s the life story of Dunstan Ramsay, a man who has never played the main character. Even as a narrator he reduces himself to a catalyst needed for certain things to happen. As it is, it as much a story about Dunstan as it is a story about Boy Staunton, his best friend and his enemy. Dunstan is an honest and self-aware narrator but as every first person narrator should be approached with caution. After all, he does specialize in myths and likes to attribute more meaning to things than other people think it’s reasonable. The Manticore looks on many events from The Fifth Business from a different perspective and through a different medium – Jung style psychoanalysis which Boy Staunton’s son is undergoing. It’s clear that Robertson Davies is a big fan of Jung and weirdly enough this was the book I have read the quickest of all three. Nothing more exciting than uncovering different layers of a person’s psyche. It made me want to embrace and explore my own Shadow, i.e. all that’s nasty about me (like that I am a judgmental bitch). World of Wonders is when the last missing puzzle of Deptford finds its place. It’s a story about illusions and legends that we like to believe about ourselves. It really explores the theme of the first person narrator, the autobiographer – unreliable by definition. It’s also a very bizarre but beautiful love story, although Davies might be falling in his own Jung trap, because his female characters in all three books are more of Anima archetypes than characters but it’s possible he meant them to be this way as every book is written from a male point of view. Davies writes the hell out of every sentence. There aren’t any false notes. Its perfection left me amazed and I am afraid my hackneyed review won’t do it justice. I don’t even want to use any of the adjectives the blurb writers have cheapened over decades of book marketing. This review is so vapid it makes me want to cry because all I want to do is to get everyone to read this book.Rating Containing Books The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy #1–3)
Ratings: 4.32 From 7531 Users | 371 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy #1–3)
Read most of this book under the shadow of Cortez's Cathedral in Mexico sitting by a pool and smoking really bad pot. Anyways, somebody I barely know suggested it. I'm glad he did...it got me through a tough time. Took my mind to another place when it was in another place to begin with. Something quaint and imaginative about the way he writes, like a master storyteller with no other agenda than the story at hand.I don't read; I re-read. The first time I read a book it's an audition. And the finest pleasure offered by this habit is to read a familiar, beloved work and find that it's better than you thought. I was traveling this last while, and so reread The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies for perhaps the fifth or sixth time. I'd first read it out of order, and that jostling affected all later readings. This time I took it in as a single novel in three parts, and it was much more ambitious and
The Deptford trilogy revolves around the mysterious death (was it murder or suicide?) of businessman Boy Staunton; along the way it tells the life stories of Staunton's boyhood friend, Dunstan Ramsay; of Staunton's son, David; and of enigmatic magician Magnus Eisengrim. Though the books are full of Davies' trademark wit and erudition, I found that they didn't work for me as well as the Cornish trilogy or the Salterton trilogy, and the second (especially) and third books didn't live up to Fifth
The work of some of my favorite Canadian authors Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Carol Shields seems to take place in an alternate universe, one that looks similar to the one I inhabit but with a different set of rules.However, the outlandish stories of Robertson Davies make me feel right at home. And hes the one who deals most explicitly with Canada as a nationality with its own mythology and creed. But he deals with everything like that, archetypally. He has more in common with Atwood than
I picked up a battered mass market paperback copy of FIFTH BUSINESS off the street in May, on the simple principle that I had heard good things about it and it was free, and stuck it in my bag as lightweight (size wise) reading for a trip to Arizona in June. These were both excellent spur of the moment decisions -- the very kind of tiny choices that Davies writes about here as influencing our whole lives.If Boy Staunton hadn't thrown the stone...If Dunstan Ramsey hadn't ducked...If Mrs. Dempster
Robertson Davies was a big fan of Jungian psychology, so if you enjoy archetypes in literature this will be a true character identification feast. How each narrator perceives the world around them plays also a big part in solving the Mysterious Death that drives the plot, so you get to play the shrink-detective.The Best: * The dialogue. Except when Magnus rambles, where it gets a bit stiff. * The female characters (except for Leola Cruikshanks and Doctor Jo) and the fact the sexiest woman in the
Wonderful trilogy - my favorite of Davies trilogies...------From Amazon.com"Who killed Boy Staunton?"This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies's elegant trilogy comprising Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders. Indeed, Staunton's death is the central event of each of the three novels, and Rashomon-style, each circles round to view it from a different perspective. In the first book, Fifth Business, Davies introduces us to Dunstan Ramsey and his "lifelong friend
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