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Title: Manticore by Robertson Davies, Eric House, Martha Henry ISBN: 0-660-18783-3 Publisher: CBC Audio Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Complex & interesting!
Comment: The life of the protagonist--whom we previously knew just an appendage to his father's colossal persona in Fifth Business--is analyzed. The story has many sockets within sockets and abundant psychological theory. Robertson Davies is so artful sn author that the information on archetypes never feels as though it came out of an encyclopedia. Rather, it is essential to the character's trajectory. Highly recommended. Makes me proud to be a Canadian!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Jungian perspective
Comment: The story is everything with Davies books. He captured me with the tale of David Staunton, who is only a minor character in Fifth Business.
As with Dunstan Ramsay, the narrator of the first book of the Deptford Trilogy, David Staunton is very much a character who needs to be brought back into balance from an extreme psyche. The book explores his eccentric character through Jungian psychology. Since Davies daugther is a Jungian psychologist, he no doubt used her as a resource in compiling the profile of Staunton.
I really find with Davies books, I find out more about myself, and new ways to view myself, through the characters that he writes about. Perhaps that is why I enjoy them so much.
Rating: 4
Summary: like Magic Mountain without the politics
Comment: Okay, so the comparison to Mann's work is a bit far fetched, but this book is a Jungian exploration of our main character's consciousness. Thanks to the convention of having Davey recount his story to his shrink, we feel a bit detached and disoriented. There is an element of almost-mysticism and we trace all the paths of Davey's mind and experiences. How did this famous criminal lawyer become such an incorrigible drunk and why does he check himself into Zurich for analysis? Unfortunately I read Fifth Business 4 years ago, so I can't remember any of the story line or comment on the relation of this book to the first. It seems to me though that this book does not depend on the first book in the series. I plan to read World of Wonders next, so I'll have more to say about the relation.
Back to this book -- it's extremely engrossing with penetrating descriptions of all the characters in Davey's life and a curiously detached view of his life. I couldn't put it down, even at the end when the mystical element almost gets out of hand and he literally climbs the mountain and crawls through a primal cave. Even if you don't buy all the Jungian stuff, Davies is such a good and interesting writer that most should enjoy the experience. As a social commentator, he reminds me of Thomas Wolfe. A gripping read.
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Title: World of Wonders by Robertson Davies ISBN: 014016796X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: April, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, Gail Godwin ISBN: 0141186151 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies ISBN: 0140062718 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1983 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Murther & Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies ISBN: 0140168842 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Cunning Man: A Novel by Robertson Davies ISBN: 0140248307 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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