The Deptford Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

Overview

Robertson Devis — krupnejshij kanadskij pisatel', master syuzhetnyh hitrospletenij i zagadok, odin iz luchshih rasskazchikov angloyazychnoj literatury. On popadal v short-list Bukera, pod konec zhizni chut' bylo ne poluchil Nobelevskuyu premiyu, no, dazhe naveki ostavshis' v chisle kandidatov, zavoeval status mirovogo klassika. Ego "Pyatyj personazh" sochli nachalom "kanadskogo proryva" v mirovoj literature; sam Dzhon Faulz oharakterizoval etot roman kak "odnu iz tekh redchajshih knig, kotoroj by ne povredilo, bud' ona podlinnee". Posledovavshaya za "Pyatym personazhem" "Mantikora" byla udostoena glavnoj kanadskoj literaturnoj nagrady — Premii general-gubernatora. "Mir chudes" — zavershayushchij roman "Deptfordskoj trilogii" — predstavlyaet soboj avtobiografiyu maga i volshebnika Magnusa Ajzengrima, istoriyu ego pod"ema iz bezdny unizheniya k vershinam vsemirnoj slavy. Itak, pod odnoj oblozhkoj — vsya "Deptfordskaya trilogiya". Eto hronika neskol'kih zhiznej, imeyushchaya fonom detektivnyj syuzhet, eto kniga o druzhbe-vrazhde znakomyh s detstva lyudej, o tajne, zavyazavshej ih sud'by v tugoj uzel; Pervyj stanet millionerom i politikom, vtoroj — vsemirno izvestnym fokusnikom, tretij — istorikom i agiografom. Odnomu iz nih suzhdeno pogibnut' pri zagadochnyh obstoyatel'stvah, dvum drugim — razgadyvat' zagadku.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389172418
Publisher:	Inostranka
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	928
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) was born and raised in Ontario, and was educated at a variety of schools, including Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; as publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; and as university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, from which he retired in 1981 with the title of Master Emeritus.

He was one of Canada’s most distinguished men of letters, with several volumes of plays and collections of essays, speeches, and belles lettres to his credit. As a novelist, he gained worldwide fame for his three trilogies: The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy, and The Cornish Trilogy, and for later novels Murther & Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man.

His career was marked by many honours: He was the first Canadian to be made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and he received honorary degrees from twenty-six American, Canadian, and British universities.