Fifth Business
The Deptford Trilogy 1
- Auteur: Robertson Davies (Canada)
- Soort boek: Canadese roman uit 1970
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgever: Macmillan Canada
- Omvang: 273 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Robertson Davies Fifth Business review en recensie
- “The Kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure.” (Observer)
- “Davies’ books will be recognized with the very best works of the twentieth century.” (New York Times Book Review)
Flaptekst van de roman van de Canadese schrijver Robertson Davies
The first book in Robertson Davies’s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy.
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man’s land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous.
Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.
De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel Het vijfde plan en is alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.
Robertson Davies was born on 28 August 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario in Canada. A novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, he received numerous awards for his work. It is as a writer of fiction 
that Robertson Davies achieved international recognition, with such books as The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailties); The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders); The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, and The Lyre of Orpheus); Murther & Walking Spirits, and The Cunning Man. Robertson Davies died on 2 December 1995 in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada at the age of 82.