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Robertson Davies biography
Title: Robertson Davies biography
Category: Literature / Creative Writing
Details: Words: 561 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Robertson Davies biography
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order."
Robertson Davies
A Voice from the Attic (1951)
Robertson Davies was born on August 28, 1913, in the small village of Thamesville, Ontario. He was son …showed first 75 words of 561 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 561 total…the bottom of it. (The interview with Robertson Davies by American Way)
It is a curious book which draws heavily on Davies's love of myth and knowledge of small-town mores. The narrator, like Davies, is of immigrant Canadian background, with a father who runs the town paper. What the narrator's life in this novel is Davies wants to experience.
Sources:
http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Davies.html
http://www.amk.ca/davies/cover_jan96
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