Interviews with the Canadian novelist, playwright, and critic share his views on his career, literature, religions, current issues, and his approach to writing
Conversations with Robertson Davies
"Conversations with Robertson Davies" is a long overdue anthology of interviews with Canadas most respected literary figure.
The central perception of the book that stands at the pivotal point of Huxley's spiritual progress could hardly meet more closely with the moral theology that Davies comes to invoke against the whole of his oeuvre: “Indifference is a ...
The story is set in motion by the death of eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish. Hollier, McVarish, and Darcourt are the executors of Cornish's complicated will, which includes material that Hollier wants for his studies.
Perhaps embarrassed, Fred and Arthur blended in with Renfrew's conservative fashion sense. Their little brother opted for Rupert's strategy. MIRANDA DAVIES I remember Rupert's smell: he had a splendid cologne and was very fastidious.
FOWLES , JOHN Davis , Douglas M. He is like a lion with painted nails . National Observer ( Silver Spring , Md . ) , January 24 , 1966 , p . 21 . McCormack , Thomas , ed . Afterwords ; Novelists on Their Novels .
"--The London Free Press "Davies is a good companion. Settling into The Cunning Man is like taking a comfortable chair opposite a favorite uncle who has seen and done everything."--Maclean's "Irresistible, unflaggingly vital.
L. Stone, 'The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History', Past & Present, no. ... 1987); J. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (Berkeley, 1991); R. Brenner, 'Bourgeois Revolution and Transition ...
the works of the great novelists of the century; in his middle chapters, he examines in detail novels by Scott, ... Twentieth-Century Literature in Retrospect, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971 Dodsworth, ...
Robertson Davies: Life, Work, and Criticism