The Deptford Trilogy Who killed Boy Staunton This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies s elegant trilogy comprising Fifth Business The Manticore and World of Wonders Indeed Staunton s death is the
Who killed Boy Staunton This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies s elegant trilogy comprising Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders Indeed, Staunton s death is the central event of each of the three novels, and Rashomon style, each circles round to view it from a different perspective In the first book, Fifth Business, Davies intro Who killed Boy Staunton This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies s elegant trilogy comprising Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders Indeed, Staunton s death is the central event of each of the three novels, and Rashomon style, each circles round to view it from a different perspective In the first book, Fifth Business, Davies introduces us to Dunstan Ramsey and his lifelong friend and enemy, Percy Boyd Staunton, both aged 10 It is a winter evening in the small Canadian village of Deptford, and Ramsey and Boy have quarreled In a rage, Boy throws a snowball with a stone in it, misses his friend and hits the Baptist minister s pregnant wife by mistake She becomes hysterical and later that night delivers her child prematurely, a baby with birth defects Even worse, she loses her mind The snowball, the stone, the deformed baby christened Paul Dempster this is the secret guilt that will bind Ramsey and Staunton together through their long lives I was perfectly sure, you see, that the birth of Paul Dempster, so small, so feeble, and troublesome, was my fault If I had not been so clever, so sly, so spiteful in hopping in front of the Dempsters just as Percy Boyd Staunton threw that snowball at me from behind, Mrs Dempster would not have been struck Did I never think that Percy was guilty Indeed I did Boy, however, would fight, lie, do anything rather than admit he feels guilty, too, and so the subject remains unresolved between them right up until the night Boy s body is found in his car, in a lake, with a stone in his mouth The second novel, The Manticore, follows Staunton s son, David, through a course of Jungian therapy in Switzerland, while World of Wonders concentrates on Magnus Eisengrim, a renowned magician and hypnotist with ties to both Ramsey and Boy Staunton.When it came to writing, three was Davies s favorite number Before the Deptford books, he wrote The Salterton Trilogy Tempest Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties , and after it came The Cornish Trilogy The Rebel Angels, What s Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus Excellent as these and Davies s other novels are, The Deptford Trilogy is arguably the masterpiece for which he ll best be remembered, as the combination of magic, archetype, and good, old fashioned human frailty at work in these novels is a world of wonders unto itself, and guarantees these three books a permanent place among the great books of our time Alix Wilber
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William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL died in Orangeville, Ontario was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor He was one of Canada s best known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished men of letters , a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto.Novels The Salterton Trilogy Tempest tost 1951 Leaven of Malice 1954 A Mixture of Frailties 1958 The Deptford Trilogy Fifth Business 1970 The Manticore 1972 World of Wonders 1975 The Cornish Trilogy The Rebel Angels 1981 What s Bred in the Bone 1985 The Lyre of Orpheus 1988 The Toronto Trilogy Davies final, incomplete, trilogy Murther and Walking Spirits 1991 The Cunning Man 1994 enpedia wiki Robertso