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I bought this to give to a friend - stopped lending books several decades ago. I read Davies' novels the same way I read those of Robert Jordan or Barbara Kingsolver, the same way I watch STNG. No matter how often I've read or watched I always find something new - about people, events, relationships, the world of the spirit. Not enough superlatives for this extraordinary book by an extraordinary man.


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The Cornish Trilogy The Rebel Angels; What Bred in the Bone; The Lyre of Orpheus Robertson Davies Books Reviews

Great value for one of the great trilogies
RDs books are amazing. My favorite is the Deptford trilogy. Talk about getting absorbed into someone else's worlds.
It’s good to read an old friend at least once every 10 years. If for any reason but to appreciate quality English writing should be- a great story with master sentence crafting.
All three books are rewarding reading but What's Bred in the Bone stands head and shoulders above the others. In my view it is Davies best work.
A friend encouraged me to put the Cornish trilogy on my list of books-to-get-to-someday. Eight years later, I have finally read it, and am so glad I did. I found the reading itself to be remarkably easy-- the plots are not complicated or unreasonably challenging for someone like me, who is not interested in being confused. The books are really less about plot than about characters and ideas. Like others, I found the author/characters to be much like the best of my college professors able to take big ideas and lay them out in a way that makes sense and lets me absorb them.

The three arts-- literature, painting and music-- explored in the three novels left me feeling like I know a little more about each. And here I want to defend the third novel which some other reviewers have dismissed as unremarkable or even unreadable. I came to Lyre with more knowledge of the theme (with my music degree in my hip pocket, as it were) than to the others. I found the discussions of the role of composition vs. libretto to be amusing and insightful-- the fight among the levels of creators in an opera isn't unlike the parallel struggle for control of the Cornish foundation. The need of musicians for sponsors was well played out. The exploration of the Arthur legend in all of its bastardizations, including the one played out in the novel, was also engaging.

For me, the last novel was the most accessible because I came to it with the most understanding of the topic. But all three challenged me enough to make this more than just an average summer read. Find sustained reading time-- this is a group of books to be savored and digested, not just sucked down and tossed aside.
Well, what exactly to say about this trilogy stretching to over eleven hundred pages? So many things come to mind, and it would be impossible to give them all due consideration without writing a review at least half as long as the book(s). -- I'll deal with what I don't particularly fancy about the trilogy as a start I don't like being confronted with gypsy Tarot readers who put menstrual blood in a fellow's drink to besot him, female spies with bedazzling psychic powers who also offer a good tumble when the praeternatural reading is over and art connoisseurs endowed with a very effective "evil eye" who bequeath their fortunes in Swiss numbered bank accounts upon their demise (and such like figures) around every corner. But such are the characters who populate all three books of the trilogy and whom we are supposed to take (to a certain extent at least) seriously. But these improbable characters are merely bothersome, it seems to me, on a rather comedic level. My deeper problem (and this was a problem with The Deptford Trilogy as well) is Davies's professorial tone here. Another reviewer has already remarked on his lack of passion. I should rather frame it thusly Davies writes quite well and extensively ABOUT passion and characters - to borrow from Yeats, as Davies frequently does herein - full of passionate intensity, but he does not write WITH passion. He is not lyrical, not a stylist, not poetic. Rather, parts of this book read like Jungian sermons (coming, of course from Simon Darcourt, so obviously an alter ego of Davies himself). - This is, summarily, what I find problematic and dislike about the trilogy.

What I appreciate about The Cornish Trilogy is that it at least makes an attempt, however excruciating in the execution, to deal with the depths in us all. This is the reason I would recommend it, despite misgivings, to any literate and contemplative reader; there is at least a trace, certainly of Simon Darcourt, probably of Francis Cornish, in anybody even considering reading this opus - not to the exclusion of other characters, however rum.

E.T.A. Hoffman, as Davies portrays him, shuffling about in Limbo, awaiting his Fate, exclaims, "Undine- yes, my wonderful tale of the water nymph who marries a mortal, and at last claims him for her underwater kingdom; what does it not say about the need for modern man to explore the deep waters that lie beneath his own surface?"

Somewhere in this rambling, shaggy dog trilogy full of parodies, grotesqueries and academic in-jokes, the persevering reader is destined to come upon his or her undertow into the depths. - Reason enough to read, I say.
Anyone who is not hypnotized by the complexities of this great writer has simply not read his works. Masterpiece after masterpiece after masterpiece, no one since Shakespeare or Dickens has so spot-on reveled in and relished uniqueness of every human being. A monstrously Olympian - and mythologically successful trio.
I bought this to give to a friend - stopped lending books several decades ago. I read Davies' novels the same way I read those of Robert Jordan or Barbara Kingsolver, the same way I watch STNG. No matter how often I've read or watched I always find something new - about people, events, relationships, the world of the spirit. Not enough superlatives for this extraordinary book by an extraordinary man.