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The Manticore

The Manticore

by Robertson Davies

CanadiansDeathFathersFictionJungian psychology
3.7
Open Library
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Les lecteurs de ##Cinquième emploi## retrouveront ici des personnages qu'ils connaissent déjà. Le héros est un avocat traumatisé par la mort mystérieuse de son père. Il se rend à Zurich pour se faire psychanalyser. Son analyste est une jolie femme et il découvrira (p. 179), qu'il en est tombé amoureux ...

Themes & subjects

CanadiansDeathFathersFictionJungian psychologyMagicians

Setting

Switzerland

About the author

Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies

1913-08-28 – 1995-12-02

William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.

Author

Robertson Davies

Pages

310

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

37

Languages

English, French, Spanish

Publisher

Penguin Books

ISBN

9782869306936

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