The Manticore
18 hrs. 7 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Robertson Davies
Author
Robertson Davies
Narrator
Sergey Kirsanov
Narrator
Sergey Kirsanov
"The Sorcerer" is the last novel by Canadian master and his creative testament—“Davis’s return to the perfect form of the ‘Deptford Trilogy’ and ‘What’s in the Bones’.” It is a novel “overflowing with themes of music, poetry, beauty, philosophy, death, and the secret corridors of the human soul.”
Here appear characters from Davis’s previous novel “Murder and the Unquiet Dead,” and also our old acquaintance Dunstun Ramsey from the “Deptford Trilogy.” Doctor of Medicine Jonathan Hulla—nicknamed the Sorcerer, because, as “the English Montaigne” Robert Burton puts it, he can “cure almost any ailments of body and soul”—investigates the mysterious death of Hobbs’s father, who died in the temple of Saint Aidan right by the altar. And this investigation forces the Sorcerer to remember his entire long life—rich with incredible events and surprising encounters…
Robertson Davies is Canada’s foremost writer, a master of plot intricacies and riddles, one of the best storytellers of English-language prose.
Here appear characters from Davis’s previous novel “Murder and the Unquiet Dead,” and also our old acquaintance Dunstun Ramsey from the “Deptford Trilogy.” Doctor of Medicine Jonathan Hulla—nicknamed the Sorcerer, because, as “the English Montaigne” Robert Burton puts it, he can “cure almost any ailments of body and soul”—investigates the mysterious death of Hobbs’s father, who died in the temple of Saint Aidan right by the altar. And this investigation forces the Sorcerer to remember his entire long life—rich with incredible events and surprising encounters…
Robertson Davies is Canada’s foremost writer, a master of plot intricacies and riddles, one of the best storytellers of English-language prose.
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