Pentapod reviewed The manticore by Robertson Davies (Penguin classics)
Review of 'The manticore' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Second in the Deptford trilogy but not as good as Fifth Business, in my opinion. It follows the events at the end of Fifth Business as the son of Dunstan's boyhood friend Staunton undergoes Jungian psychoanalysis and tries to understand himself better, and through his memories, his parts also.
Still well told but as neither the narrator nor his father are particularly likeable characters and as almost the entire story is told as therapy sessions with the Jungian psychiatrist, it just failed to capture my interest as much as the prequel. Dunstan does appear at the end and a few more details are revealed about the mystery at the end of Fifth Business.
Second in the Deptford trilogy but not as good as Fifth Business, in my opinion. It follows the events at the end of Fifth Business as the son of Dunstan's boyhood friend Staunton undergoes Jungian psychoanalysis and tries to understand himself better, and through his memories, his parts also.
Still well told but as neither the narrator nor his father are particularly likeable characters and as almost the entire story is told as therapy sessions with the Jungian psychiatrist, it just failed to capture my interest as much as the prequel. Dunstan does appear at the end and a few more details are revealed about the mystery at the end of Fifth Business.
