Book Review
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kenjariThe Rebel Angels
by Robertson Davies
This book is set at the University of Toronto (College of St. John of the Holy Ghost) and concerns the doings of a group of scholars: three professors, graduate student Maria Theotoky, and renegade monk John Parlabane. I was thoroughly enchanted with this novel - it's way more fun than I would have thought. Davies writes with plenty of wit and humor and embues the plot and the university setting with a sense of magic and adventure. The three professors are named the joint executors of the estate of recently deceased collector and art patron Francis Cornish, Parlabane arrives unexpectedly and disrupts everybody, and Maria conducts her graduate work and personal life in the midst of all this. There is a stolen manuscript of great value, Gypsy folk customs, murder, and romance. There are themes concerning the hidden worth of the things to which most people would assign no value at all, the relationship between the antiquated and the modern, and the search for knowledge and truth.
by Robertson Davies
This book is set at the University of Toronto (College of St. John of the Holy Ghost) and concerns the doings of a group of scholars: three professors, graduate student Maria Theotoky, and renegade monk John Parlabane. I was thoroughly enchanted with this novel - it's way more fun than I would have thought. Davies writes with plenty of wit and humor and embues the plot and the university setting with a sense of magic and adventure. The three professors are named the joint executors of the estate of recently deceased collector and art patron Francis Cornish, Parlabane arrives unexpectedly and disrupts everybody, and Maria conducts her graduate work and personal life in the midst of all this. There is a stolen manuscript of great value, Gypsy folk customs, murder, and romance. There are themes concerning the hidden worth of the things to which most people would assign no value at all, the relationship between the antiquated and the modern, and the search for knowledge and truth.
