Fifth Business
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, published by Penguin Books in 1996, is a literary work that explores the complexities of memory, history, and myth through the life of Ramsay, a man marked by his experiences in World War I. Decorated with the Victoria Cross, Ramsay navigates a landscape where his past actions, seemingly trivial, reveal deeper implications that shape the lives of those around him. This edition spans 273 pages and is presented in English.
Readers will find that Ramsay’s narrative unfolds in a manner that intertwines the ordinary with the extraordinary, as he reflects on his influence over others from a young age. The story delves into themes of personal responsibility and the intersection of reality and the marvelous, inviting contemplation on the nature of existence. Fifth Business offers a unique perspective on how individual actions resonate within a broader context, making it a thought-provoking read for those interested in literary fiction.
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Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man’s land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.
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