The Merry Heart: Reflections on Books, Art, Writing, Morality and Magic.
Economist (US), The, September, 1997
THE MERRY HEART: REFLECTIONS ON BOOKS, ART, WRITING, MORALITY AND MAGIC. By Robertson Davies. Viking; 385 pages; K20 and $27.95
WHEN Robertson Davies died in 1995 at the age of 82 he was at work-characteristically and age notwithstanding-on the second volume of a new trilogy of novels. "The Cunning Man", the first volume, was published in 1995 and is a fine book in its own right. The Toronto Trilogy, as it would have been, promised to match or even surpass the Salterton, Deptford and Cornish trilogies for which Davies is best known, but fate ruled otherwise. However, while researching his novels, the author maintained throughout his career a steady output of shorter pieces, and the best of these are collected in "The Merry Heart". Much as one would have preferred...
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