Davies, Robertson (Vol. 2) - Davies, Robertson 1913–
Davies, Robertson 1913–
Davies is a highly-regarded Canadian novelist. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 33-36.)
It is a secure kind of pleasure to begin a novel by Canadian Writer Robertson Davies. This is not because the reader knows what will happen—Davies does not write formula fiction—but because he is serenely sure of what will not happen. The author will not hunt snarks, nor plant a forest of symbols and then get lost in it. Nor will he fail to have some rather compelling reason to write rather than remain silent….
[Davies'] fiction resembles the work of such writers as Louis Auchincloss, James Gould Cozzens and C. P. Snow, in that—whatever the theme—in the telling, reason's rule is absolute. This can be a chilly virtue as well as a limiting one, but the limits are generous in Davies' case. His perceptions are wry and tough.
John Skow, "Solitary Voyage," in Time (reprinted by...
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