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Rebel Angels: What's in the Bones: Orpheus' Lyre

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Rebel Angels: What's in the Bones: Orpheus' Lyre
99.99 €
Robertson Davies is a major Canadian writer, a master of plot intricacies and mysteries, and one of the best storytellers in English-language literature. His "Deptford Trilogy" ("The Fifth Character", "Manticore", "Wonder World") was considered the beginning of the "Canadian breakthrough" in world literature. He was short-listed for the Booker (with the novel "What's in the Bones is laid", included in this volume), was awarded the main Canadian literary award - the Governor General's Award, towards the end of his life almost won the Nobel Prize, but, even forever remaining among the candidates, won the status of a world classic. So, your attention is offered under one cover the entire "Cornish trilogy", which followed "Deptford". While the Cornish Foundation deals with the inheritance of wealthy philanthropist and collector Francis Cornish, his secret biography outlined by the angel-registrar Radveril ("he is not a simple scribe: he is the angel of poetry and lord of the muses") and the angel of biographies, Tzadkiel the Small ("it was he who intervened when Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac; so he is also the angel of mercy"); and in this biography there was also service in intelligence, the forging of paintings by old masters for the noblest of reasons, and family secrets in all their variety. The apotheosis of the activities of the Cornish Foundation is an unprecedentedly ambitious project: to complete the unfinished opera E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Arthur of Britain, or the Magnanimous Cuckold". The great power of art - or of the archetypes embedded in the story itself - is such that the lives of all those involved in the project begin to mimic the events of the opera. And from Purgatory, Hoffmann himself, who once wrote: "Orpheus' lyre opens the doors of the underworld", is watching all this....
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