A TRUE RENAISSANCE MAN

The visions of R Murray Schafer
by GORDON RUMSON

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In Ariadne, Schafer tells the story by means of suggestive sketches, designs and layouts. Text shivers on the page, lines droop with the emotions, words jostle in confusion and then evaporate into thin air.

Example 8: 'One Day we walked in a Persian Garden', Ariadne,
(Indian River, Ontario: Arcana Editions, reprint of 1977), n.p.
Reproduced here with permission.

These novels (and others such as Wolf Tracks, which is not technically for sale but must be found in used book stores where Schafer's agents have secreted them) firmly place Schafer among the best of Canadian writers.

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