The Rebel Angels
Robertson Davies
31st August 2000 at Max's House
Synopsis
The College of St John and the Holy Ghost (Spook) is jolted
out of its crabbed and scholarly pursuits by the return to
its Gothic walls of the evil, brilliant Brother Parlabane
and the miraculous discovery of an unpublished manuscript
by Rabelais. A glittering extravaganza of wit, scatalogy,
saturnalia, mysticism and erudite vaudeville, The Rebel
Angels, places Robertson Davies in the forefront of contemporary
writers.
Published reviews
The sort of novelist readers can hardly wait to tell their
friends about ... a reader just sighs with pleasure as he
turns the pages.
Washington Post Book World
Every novel from Robertson Davies is a cerebral adventure
spliced with fantasy, sex and verbal gymnastics. He tantalizes
you, but by God, it's more than your peace of mind is worth
not to read it to the end. And what an end: you won't forget
The Rebel Angels in a hurry.
Alan Sillitoe
His novels will be recognized with the very best works of
this century.
J K Galbraith in The New York Times Book Review
Our comments
At first I thought this was going to be a really hard book
to read - very pretentious, knowingly clever. But it draws
you in and by the end you are finding it funny rather than
irritating. I'll certainly read more. Eliane
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