David’s analysis is much more focused on himself and a few characters very close to himself - his father, his mother and step-mother, his sister and her husband and Netty Quelch his long-term nanny, now housekeeper. The structure is clever, though not original, but does tend to limit the novel more than most other Davies’ novels I’ve read. The novel is fundamentally the process of David’s analysis, or is it treatment, under the guidance of Dr. In a move that surprises even himself, he heads off to Zurich to the Jung Institute and puts himself under Jungian psychiatric care. (We who’ve ready the first volume of this trilogy, FIFTH BUSINESS know the truth of that event.) David, a very successful 40 year-old criminal lawyer, is having a hard time coping with his father’s death and his life in general. Since I have several reviews of Davies' work I have set up a page to collect my comments and other links to Davies' workĭavid Staughton’s father has been killed, probably murdered. New York: Penguin, 1983 from 1976 original THE MANTICORE THE MANTICORE Robertson Davies
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