The Manticore: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 2
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The Manticore: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 2
Robertson Davies
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 1, 2018
Davies’s flamboyant naturalism continues in the second book in the Deptford Trilogy, The Manticore, in which the journey of discovery belongs to David Staunton, Boy’s son and Dunstan’s student. The three novels—each of which, remarkably, stands on its own and can be read independently of the others—echo and amplify one another. Their shared concerns encompass the haunting power of the ghosts of the past, the spiritual emanations of mundane experience, the ancient and collective truths that animate our psychological adventures (a good part of The Manticore details David Staunton’s Jungian analysis in Switzerland), and the liberating gift of wonder.
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roppenhe
Feb 18, 2019
If you've ever wanted to undergo psychoanalysis by proxy, this might be the book for you! And if you haven't, this still might be the book for you.
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Martin
Apr 6, 2019
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