It really explores the theme of the first person narrator, the autobiographer – unreliable by definition. It’s a story about illusions and legends that we like to believe about ourselves. World of Wonders is when the last missing puzzle of Deptford finds its place. all that’s nasty about me (like that I am a judgmental bitch). It made me want to embrace and explore my own Shadow, i.e.
Nothing more exciting than uncovering different layers of a person’s psyche. It’s clear that Robertson Davies is a big fan of Jung and weirdly enough this was the book I have read the quickest of all three. The Manticore looks on many events from The Fifth Business from a different perspective and through a different medium – Jung style psychoanalysis which Boy Staunton’s son is undergoing. After all, he does specialize in myths and likes to attribute more meaning to things than other people think it’s reasonable. Dunstan is an honest and self-aware narrator but as every first person narrator should be approached with caution. As it is, it as much a story about Dunstan as it is a story about Boy Staunton, his best friend and his enemy. Even as a narrator he reduces himself to a catalyst needed for certain things to happen. It’s the life story of Dunstan Ramsay, a man who has never played the main character. There were saints, magic and a lot of symbolism but not as heavy handed as in John Irving’s books. It all starts in a small village of Deptford, Ontario.įifth Business was like a better version of Prayer for Owen Meany. It was three books and each one of them a different kind of wonderful. Not that it made sense to anyone who asked. But I thought about it and decided that it was mostly about subjectivity of experience. It's usually non-readers who ask such questions because readers know better than to ask what a 800 page book is about.
How do I even begin this? I spent about two weeks reading this and that's a lot of time for people to be asking: "so what is it about?"
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