by Robertson Davies · Libros del Asteroide · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493501846
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«Mantícora» is the fiction novel by Robertson Davies, published by Libros del Asteroide in paperback (376 pages, in Spanish).
David Staunton, son of Canadian magnate Boy Staunton, does not accept the official version of his father's death and travels to Zurich to undergo psychoanalysis at the Jung Institute. Forced to probe his memory, characters and memories surface that confront him with his own demons and the paternal memory, in a novel that blends realism and myth.
Second instalment of the Deptford Trilogy, after «El quinto en discordia». Translation by Miguel Martínez-Lage of the original «The Manticore».
For readers aged 15 and over interested in Jungian psychology and character-driven narrative.
William Robertson Davies 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.
