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The Rebel Angels

By Robertson Davies
The Rebel Angels Defrocked monks mad professors and wealthy eccentrics a remarkable cast peoples Robertson Davies brilliant spectacle of theft perjury murder scholarship and love at a modern university Only Mr D

  • Title: The Rebel Angels
  • Author: Robertson Davies
  • ISBN: 9780140062717
  • Page: 480
  • Format: Paperback

    • Defrocked monks, mad professors, and wealthy eccentrics a remarkable cast peoples Robertson Davies brilliant spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a modern university Only Mr Davies, author of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, could have woven together their destinies with such wit, humour and wisdom.

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    1. Robertson Davies says:
      William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL died in Orangeville, Ontario 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 is sometimes said to have detested Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto.Novels The Salterton Trilogy Tempest tost 1951 Leaven of Malice 1954 A Mixture of Frailties 1958 The Deptford Trilogy Fifth Business 1970 The Manticore 1972 World of Wonders 1975 The Cornish Trilogy The Rebel Angels 1981 What s Bred in the Bone 1985 The Lyre of Orpheus 1988 The Toronto Trilogy Davies final, incomplete, trilogy Murther and Walking Spirits 1991 The Cunning Man 1994 enpedia wiki Robertso

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    2. Terry says:
      4 4.5 starsSome books are comfort reads They are old friends whose familiarity provides us with a sense of stability and well being, and they fit like a glove to the intellectual, emotional, and purely personal elements of our psyche Sometimes this is because we came to them in formative years when their mode and message could be deeply impressed on us, sometimes it is because they simply express aspects of our nature that we ourselves may not be fully aware of, but to which they harmonize compl [...]
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    3. Nickolas the Kid says:
      , , 3 3 , , , , , , , , , , , , 3 La Bas , 5 5 .
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    4. Oscar says:
      Qu bueno es Robertson Davies Lo descubr por medio de la Trilog a de Deptford, menci n especial para el primer libro perteneciente a la misma, El quinto en discordia , y he de decir que es un escritor absolutamente delicioso Mientras le a ngeles rebeldes , no dejaba de pensar en llamar a todos mis conocidos para leerles alg n fragmento memorable, por su humor y por su inteligencia Y es que este libro, y la obra de Davies en general, se caracteriza por la variedad de temas que trata, siempre desde [...]
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    5. Francisco H. González says:
      Rabelais, Paracelso, luthiers, manuscritos perdidos, acad micos eruditos, gitanos, magia, encantamientos, rollos profesor alumno, sumo intelectual, alquimia, asesinato, suicidio, mentalidad salvaje, f sil cultural, bromas, adivinanzas, chanzas, deyecci n como acto creativo, escatolog a, di logos crepitantes, humor, iron a, novela impublicable, herencia, millonario, amor, amistad, ngeles rebeldes, casamiento Con estos elementos y otros muchos m s, el coloso canadiense Robertson Davies 1913 1995 a [...]
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    6. Stephen P says:
      I love reading about the academic life I have never been in academics yet I ve also not been a researcher and I could read endlessly on a person dedicating their life to the study of a specific subject within the walls of a library, their live s enfolded in cluttered stacks of paper and tilted piles of books If I m going to get truly confessional here I admit to a desire to read about someone reading even without me knowing what it is they read Seeing the act of reading for me is enjoyment.Wanti [...]
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    7. Jan Rice says:
      What makes a book a novel so good that it is nourishing That s how Robertson Davies strikes me.This one is the first book of The Cornish Trilogy, which I read before, about 25 years ago I didn t remember much of this one, just a vague feeling of familiarity like a dream you think you ve dreamed before.The story is told by two characters, a beautiful, exotic and brilliant twenty something graduate student and a forty five year old Anglican priest turned professor All the chapters told by the youn [...]
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    8. Josh says:
      Robertson Davies is probably the greatest writer Canada has ever produced Not that Canadian literature is all that great, but even overshadowing the likes of Atwood and Munro is still a pretty remarkable achievement He writes about things that should be really boring in a way that s somehow really interesting Like the drama of Renaissance professors and graduate students Does that get your heart racing No Well what if I told you it s all interspersed with Gypsy mysticism and Rabelaisian allusion [...]
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    9. Carl R. says:
      It s humbling I suppose I need it to be introduced to wonderful writers I ought to have known about years nay, decades ago So I ve been chastened once again by following a tip, again from that Canadian son in law I ve mentioned before, that I might like a certain author of Canadian renown named Robertson Davies Why I haven t run across this prolific storyteller of great intellect and wit before must be a matter of my earwax or some kind of American literary snobbery The man is a first rate write [...]
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    10. Ensiform says:
      The first part of the Cornish Trilogy Alternating between two narrators Maria, a half gypsy graduate student in love with her mentor and a Simon, a priest who teaches at the University and falls for her the book tells a complex story of love, lust, art, pride, scholarship, academic rivalry and criminal actions John Parlabane, a defrocked gay monk and sort of evil genius, stirs up the brew with his sharp eyes and tongue, yet somehow it tuns out right for the characters whom the reader sympathizes [...]
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    11. Oliver Twist & Shout says:
      Muy decepcionante Desde que Davies gan el premio Llibreter en 2006 que pensaba en hincarle el diente a alguna de sus novelas y esperaba algo Davies esboza un libro acerca de adultos cultos que se portan como personajes de Deads poets society son bastante inmaduros, el sexo les resulta azaroso, son torpes y t midos en el amor, curiosamente ninguno tiene relaciones sentimentales con nadie, pillan rabietas parece mentira que sean creaciones ideadas por un se or de casi 70 a os Parecen mentira La gr [...]
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    12. Matt says:
      What TEDIUM this book was Interesting premise and characters, but one of the most unsatisfying, contrived and rediculous stories I can remember setting eyes on Ostensibly about several academics in a large univ the book was only saved by the presence of a colorful gypsy family, who were the only authentic and vaguely stirring elements in an otherwise drab, Canadian yawn of a novel A few good passages and interesting references, but overall it needed to be edited down to a third its size Miraculo [...]
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    13. Wanda says:
      How do you solve a problem like Maria She is so perfect a beautiful brainiac How much I would have given as a student to have her knowledge of languages However, I remember spending hours trying to conjugate Ancient Greek verbs and remember proper endings of nouns all these many years later, the only sentence I remember The boat is in Byzantium Not really too useful, for translations or conversations.Davies does try to give Maria some faults she has a Gypsy family to contend with and has an adol [...]
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    14. Jackie says:
      I was so disappointed in this novel For one thing, it struck me as incredibly dated its attitudes towards women for one thing, and the constant assessment of any progressive sentiment as fashionable and therefore, one assumes, temporary Simon Darcourt was a good narrator, but I couldn t stand Maria and I found myself wondering how they gypsy passages would read to an actual gypsy.But whatever The mythological supernatural religious moments were interesting I liked the idea of a pure evil charact [...]
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    15. Gill says:
      Good reading for a nerd like me who loves good sentences and endearingly wacky characters.
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    16. robert says:
      After raves from Harold Bloom, Salon, and my favorite bookseller this book became my lackluster traveling companion for a journey across the Atlantic None of the intellectual protagonists sound all that smart, their ideas are far from stimulating, and even the analysis of excrement is somehow boring Like Possession, this is a writer s wet dream nothing wrong with that But though The Rebel Angels is much better than Byatt s book, Davies liberated notions at times seem strangely dated and offensiv [...]
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    17. Tracy says:
      This is such an wonderfully inventive novel I read it many years ago, perhaps when I was the age of Maria Theotoky, I may have been a little older Reading this novel made me feel the way I did when I was young and in university, the way I felt when I met my first husband The passionate arguments about books and music granted I was a lot into pop culture than this bunch of odd characters, and neither as brilliant nor as beautiful as Maria Anyhow this novel captures the flavour of the Ivory Tower [...]
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    18. Merilee says:
      This book really petered out for me I loved What s Bred in the Bone, another one of the Cornish trilogy, but this I just grew impatient with Perhaps I read it over too long a time, although that might also be because it never really engaged me
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    20. Krista says:
      Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.Call mine, then, a subtle wit for I enjoyed this book full of indecencies I first read The Rebel Angels probably 25 years ago and what impressed me most about it was how Robertson Davies can describe situations totally outside my frame of reference here, the inner workings of a graduate school and the lofty topics of professorial research without making me feel ignorant or undereducated as Davies characters speak knowledgably [...]
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    21. Kate Millin says:
      I am reading this in a different version one that has the Cornish trilogy in one volume, but want to record each book as a separate read, so this is not the same as the copy I am reading.The Rebel Angels revolves around the execution of a difficult will In this case, the estate is of one Francis Cornish, a fantastically rich patron and collector of Canadian art and a noted antiquarian bibliophile A lost Rabelais manuscript is rumoured to be among his possessions, and his executors include the de [...]
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    22. Lara says:
      Robertson Davies books always just.etely suck me in I don t even care what the hell he writes about wrote about talking about books by dead authors always confuses me , I always have a very difficult time putting his books down once I ve picked them up This one involves a 23 year old half Gypsy research assistant and several professors at the College of St John and Holy Ghost Spook for short , the complicated will of an art patron and donor, a deadbeat defrocked monk who has arrived back in town [...]
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    23. julieta says:
      Quiero empezar diciendo que amo a Robertson Davies A excepci n de un libro suyo que realmente no me gust , todo lo dem s siempre me parece entra able, entretenido, divertido, profundo En fin, tiene algo que tambi n debe ser de su car cter, que lo hace muy c lido para leer Este libro me encanta porque entra al mundo acad mico, un mundo por el cual siempre he suspirado, por nunca haber vivido ni de cerca algo por el estilo La vida me llev a otras cosas, y una vida acad mica no estaba en los planes [...]
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    24. Zsofi says:
      at first I was to give five stars for this book It was an amazing feeling how I could relate to its grotesque depiction of the academia When i find an interesting book, i usually do everything to promote it among my friends But this one, I wanted to hide away so that no one would have known how perfectly, intimidatingly touch it felt How desperately I wanted to recycle those insightful sentences in casual discussion The reason why I ended up giving only for stars is one of the narrators, Maria T [...]
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    25. Perry Whitford says:
      The Rebel Angels is the first in a superlative trilogy about friendship, love, knowledge, obsession and the arts, set in a Canadian university campus As an eccentric, millionaire art collector dies and the three appointed executors get down to the task of sorting through his massive, uncataloged paintings and manuscripts, another old, disreputable university figure reappears on the scene, penniless and dressed in a dishevelled monk s habit, shamelessly cadging off all and sundry yet convinced of [...]
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    26. Maj says:
      Sigh.Make this rating a very strong 3 5, nevertheless, about a decade after I read the second part of the Cornish trilogy, finally reading the first part left me disappointed and unsatisfied.Some of it could have something to do with the wildly differing forms of the novelse Angels are pretty much diaries of two people spanning one year, while What s Bred In the Bone is a fictional biography Some of it and actually a great deal of it in my case is the fact that Maria s voice was just way off for [...]
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    27. Giedre says:
      I feel quite bad about adding this book into my unfinished shelf, especially when I m pretty close to the end already The book counts with a wide public, has great reviews and I can only praise the author s talent to transmit in a witty way the usually unseen side of the academia The characters reflect Davies deep and admirable knowledge of philosophy, literature, history and a number of other subjects, but while I was profoundly enjoying this part, I could not get rid of the feeling that these [...]
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    28. Rafa Sánchez says:
      Magn fica novela del autor de El quinto en discordia , dentro del mismo estilo de plantear peque os misterios casi cotidianos dentro del mbito de la Gran Cultura , con eruditos en los m s pintorescos o ex ticos campos del conocimiento de nuestra civilizaci n La trama transcurre, como es casi habitual en Robertson Davies, dentro de una destacada universidad canadiense tan distintas, lamentablemente, a las espa olas y nos descubre campos de saber que no sospechamos que existan, como en la trilog a [...]
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    29. Bettie☯ says:
      As Francis Cornish, art expert and millionaire philanthropist, looks down from Limbo, nervously awaiting whatever is in store for his soul, his family and colleagues in Toronto oversee the disposal of his art collectionn.
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    30. Bill Guinee says:
      Marvelous book Intelligent, philosophical, kind, and humorous Who could ask for anything .
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