Robertson Davis Biography

Disconnect on the page of Robertson Davis on all pages of the authors to preserve the biography - Robertson Davis Robertson Davis full name - William Robertson Davis - classic of literature of the 20th century, one of the most popular and respected "writing people" how he loved to speak in Canada. The future prose writer, playwright, critic and journalist was born in Temsville Ontario.

From childhood surrounded by books, Robert grew up in an atmosphere of art, early began to show interest in the theater and linguistics. His father was associated with the publication of the press, and, like his mother, was a passionate reader and bibliophile. He took part in student productions in Oxford, acted as an actor in small roles, worked for a couple of years a literary assistant director in the London Theater "Old Vic".

He met his future bride - Australian Brend Matthews. After returning to Canada in the year, he was a literary editor of the magazine Saturday Night, published the newspaper The Peterborough Examiner in the town of Peterborough, not far from Toronto. Also, along with several other relatives, a little later Davis became the owner of several more Canadian newspapers and other publications.

Many friends and acquaintances from that time and stories taken from their lives will fall later into some novels and plays of the writer. He continued to publish articles and work in the theater, in the end of the x the first, he wrote several of his first single and three -shaktic plays, which were almost immediately set on local scenes. In the year, the book “Shakespeare for Young Players” was published, in which Davis's views on the acting game were expressed.

In the X years, he helped a lot with the organization of the Stratford Shakespearean festival, and the memories of this form the basis of three books written together with theatrical director Sir Tyron Gatrine and artist Tanya Moisevich. Also for many years, under the pseudonym Samuel Murkbanks, the newspapers published humorous essays and notes of Davis, which were gradually collected in three volumes, and in the final volume of the Ompers “The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks” the writer debuted by the novel “Tempest-Tost” this book opened a cycle of works dedicated to the small towns of Canada and the complex relationships of their inhabitants for many decades.

Actually, on three monumental trilies about such towns as on three whales, and mainly the reputation of Robertson Davis for most readers of the world is held. From a year, he taught at Trinity College of Toronto University, since the year he became the rector of the Massha College under the same university, besides this, being one of its founders. In the year, the first collection of the Davis essay - “A Voice from the Attic” was published, but all the decade passed mainly under the sign of teaching.

In the X years, the writer returns to the writing of novels and gains the popularity of the philosophical and magical “Deptord trilogy” novels “Fifth Business”,; "The Manticore"; The World of Wonders, in which his love of mythology and magic, as well as knowledge of the province and its inhabitants reached their climax. The intricacies of the life of three main characters with remarkably written characters, densely saturated with the motives of Jungian psychology, have not let out several generations of readers from themselves.

For this is really talented and carefully tailored, stylistically elegant and damn fascinating narrative, which layers reality and phantasmagoria, the bitterness of truth and the sweetness of lies, the dryness of history and the unsteady myth. In the Fifth Character, Davis appears one of the most skilled players with the reader, and some tedious psychoanalysis in Manticore more than pays off the dramatic plot stanger and dirty variegation of the circus in the “world of miracles”, the final novel of the trilogy.

Another trilogy - “The Cornish Trilogy” - appeared in X and contained even slightly more significant fantastic elements. The first of them, along with the “Deptord Trilogy”, was included in the famous literary “Western canon” critic Garold Bloom. The last two novels of Davis - “Murther and Walking Spirits”, the story told by the ghost of the murdered man and “The Cunning Man” - also was successful, but the writer did not manage to finish their fourth trilogy in a low prose uniform, Robertson Davis almost did not work for every Christmas, starting from the year, he wrote and read his own Pupils at Massa College History of Ghost Story ghosts.

This has become a good tradition for as many as 18 years. All together in the year, these stories compiled a small collection of stories on the pages - “High Spirits”, which was deservedly awarded the World Fantasy Award masterfully, diversely and with the taste of Davis beats all traditional moves and techniques of the ghost stories. Many of the stories turned out to be frankly parody, some are small sketches associated with university life or built as cultural and literary dialogues of famous historical figures.

Some of the stories were subsequently included in various anthologies.Robertson Davis died on December 2 in the hospital of the city of Orangeville after the infarction. He uses all archetypes known to the world in order to make his heroes more voluminous. Moreover, this semantic saturation is easily perceived due to the conciseness and accuracy of the language, which is written by the trilogy of a detailed biography.