Murders and restless perfumes

Robertson Davis is the largest Canadian writer, master of plot intricacies and riddles, one of the best storytellers of English -speaking literature. His “Deptord"s trilogy” (“Fifth Character”, “Manticore”, “World of Miracles”) was considered the beginning of the “Canadian breakthrough” in world literature. He fell into the short list of the Boker (with the novel “What is laid down” from the Kornishchi Trilogy), was awarded the main Canadian literary award-the Governor-General, at the end of his life, almost received the Nobel Prize, but even forever remaining Among the candidates, he won the status of a world classic.
“Printers find from experience that one killing costs two monsters and at least three restless spirits,” wrote the English satirist of the 17th century Samuel Butler. “But if restless perfumes are added to the murder, no other story can compare with this.” And the hero of this novel will have to test this wise thought on his own experience: it is a restless spirit in the very first lines of Connor Gilmartin, editor of the culture department in the newspaper Voice, making his wife in bed with a lover and received from that (his subordinate, theater critic) a club on the head. And someone unknown leads Connor"s soul first “in the eighteenth century, which was almost yesterday on the scale of the entire history of mankind” - and does not stop there, and now the “branded Davisian time machine unfolds before us colorful paintings of the past, executed miracles and mischief (The Los Angeles Times Book Review) Why do Connor open paintings from the life of their own ancestors, and where is the church under the name “Emmanuel"s partnership of the Swedenborg, scientist and the seer”?
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