![]() As Dunstan details his own experience, we follow the threads of these other, connected lives until very late - on page 244 of 257 - we realise this is less memoir than confession and the threads suddenly tie up. ![]() Mean act haunts one man for decades and overshadows the life of another, yet is entirely forgotten by the perpertator. It's a rather rambling life history, beginning with a snowball fight, then taking in Dunstan's relatively impoverished childhood in a Canadian village, his horrifically conveyed service in the First World War, and his later teaching and academic career, writing books about saints.ĭavies is clearly influenced by Jung - the main characters in the book The book is a memoir by an old teacher, Dunstan Ramsay, sent to the headmaster of his school. My friend Red gave me The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies almost a year ago, but work got it in the way so I've only just read the first instalment - Fifth Business, originally published in 1970. ![]()
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