Rebel angels

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” in this volume) 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.
So, your attention is offered under one cover the entire “Cornish trilogy”, which followed the “deptfort”. While the Kornishh fund is dealing with the inheritance of the rich philanthropist and collector of Francis Kornish, his secret biography is set out by an angel-register Radveril (“He is not a simple clerk: he is an angel of poetry and lord of muses”) and an angel of the Biographies Tsadykil Maly (“It was he who intervened when Abraham was when Abraham He was going to sacrifice Isaac, so he was also an angel of mercy ”), and in the biography of this there was a reconnaissance service, and a fake of the paintings of old masters of the most noble reasons, and family secrets in all their diversity. The apotheosis of the Kornish Foundation is an unprecedented ambitious project: to complete the unfinished opera E. T. Hoffmann Arthur British, or a generous cuckold. The great power of art - or laid down in the plot of archetypes - such that the life of all those involved in the project begins to imitate the events of the opera. And from purgatory, Hoffmann himself was watching all this, who at one time wrote: “Lira Orpheus opens the doors of the underground world”