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The Alchemical Master
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BOOK WORLD
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6 / 1989 |
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Linda Osborne
Linda Osborne has taught contemporary literature at the
Smithsonian Institution and frequently reviews fiction. |
THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS
Robertson Davies
New York: Viking, 1989
472 pp., $19.95
WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE
Robertson Davies
New York: Viking, 1985
436 pp., $17.95
THE REBEL ANGELS
Robertson Davies
New York: Viking, 1982
$13.95
To open the Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, or The Lyre of Orpheus--the novels composing Canadian author Robertson Davies' latest trilogy--is to enter a world of magic, where alchemy and illusion mingle with scholarship, angels and dead artists speak, Gypsies break bread with professors, and ordinary people quest for truth and adventure.
Like his earlier Deptford trilogy--Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders--Davies' recent novels are deeply imaginative, rich with allegory and symbol, peopled with eccentric, outspoken, and intriguing characters, and concerned not only with the nature of personality, but of the soul and the heart. "But let us, I entreat you, explore the miraculous that dwells in the depths of the mind," writes the composer E.T.A. Hoffman in The Lyre of Orpheus; it is an invitation that Davies extends to the reader on every
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