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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It wasn't so funny for one of the Vaughan bros. or Jack Parsons. tho, with Robertson Davies merriment never ceases to break through. everything by this great Canadian writer is worth the effort. There is much to be learned about the writer's approach in his letters ed. by Judith Skelton. grant: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. i had hoped he would to a ripe old 100, but, alas, we have been without him for almost 13 years now. Happy Alchemy's subtitle reads, "On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre", and this work presents 33 Davies pieces, including "Lewis Carroll in the Theatre", "Opera for the Man Who Reads Hamlet", "Dickens and Music", "How I Write a Book", and the humorously self-depreciating "My Musical Career." Happy Alchemy shares many fine insights about humanity while also providing many historical and literary lessons for the reader. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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One of Canada's--and the world's--most beloved authors, Robertson Davies was also a devoted fan of opera and the theater. In this follow-up to his first posthumous collection, A Merry Heart, Davies ruminates on these lifelong passions, offering a diverse sampling of personal reflections on everything from the ancient Greeks to Lewis Carroll, Scottish folklore to Laurence Olivier, the sins of Verdi to the virtues of melodrama. The combined effect of these thirty-three essays, lectures, plays, and librettos-- edited by his widow and daughter--is true alchemy, as "readers . . . come away with a renewed appreciation of the ease with which Davies routinely transformed his sometimes erudite passions into delightful entertainments" (The New York Times Book Review). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The themes in this collection crop up with sufficient regularity to make it a better candidate for a bedside table read rather than something to be read straight through. Recommended for those who like Davies' writing or those who enjoy the theatre. ( )