Murder and Restless Spirits
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Murder and Restless Spirits
14.99 €
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" from the "Cornish Trilogy"), 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. "Printers find by experience that one Murder is worth two Monsters and no less than three Unquiet Spirits - wrote the English satirist of the XVII century Samuel Butler. - But if the Murder is added to the Unmourned Spirits, no other tale can compare with it". And the hero of this novel will have to test this wise idea on his own experience: it is the unquiet spirit becomes in the first lines of Connor Gilmartin, editor of the culture department in the newspaper "The Voice", caught his wife in bed with a lover and received from him (his subordinate, theater critic) a club on the head. And so someone unknown takes Connor's soul first "back to the eighteenth century, which on the scale of all human history was practically yesterday" - and does not stop there; and now "Davis's trademark time machine unfolds before us colorful pictures of the past, full of wonder and mischief" (The Los Angeles Times Book Review). Why does Connor discover pictures from the lives of his own ancestors, and what does this have to do with a church called "The Society of Emanuel Swedenborg, scientist and visionary"? For the first time in Russian!
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