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	John Banville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Banville is an Irish novelist, born December 8, 1945 in Wexford.
		Banville is known for his precise—some would say cold—prose style, Nabokovian in inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators.
		Banville is the youngest of three siblings; his older brother Vincent is also a novelist and has written under the name Vincent Lawrence as well as his own.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Banville (948 words)

	Send Melanie Banville to the Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Banville had hyperextended her left knee during training before the competition, which forced her to miss a period of training a month before the 2002 national championships and Commonwealth Games trials.
		Banville was intent on going to the 2004 Olympics, but she couldn't do it using the same strategic plan.
		Banville, who was named Gymnastics Canada's top female gymnast for 2003-04, dominated the event finals at the 2004 Canadian championships by winning the vault and bars and placing second in beam.
	www.melaniebanville.com /art09.htm (1104 words)

	Shroud by John Banville - read review
		Author Banville has always specialized in short, dense novels in which his narrators are unreliable, even dishonest, often pretending to be other than who they really are as they deal with turning points in their lives.
		Banville further develops the religious symbolism by his references to artworks, crucifixion scenes by artists from the various settings in which the novel takes place: Cranach, Bosch, Memling, and Van Eyck in his scenes from Antwerp and the North Countries, and Tintoretto, Mantegna, and Bellini in scenes from Italy.
		Banville is a mastercraftsman who has interconnected every plot detail with his themes of identity and selfhood, the relationships we create with the outside world, and our desire to be remembered after our deaths.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/banville.htm (1150 words)

	BANVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on BANVILLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		BANVILLE, THEODORE FAULLAIN DE (1823-1891), French poet and miscellaneous writer, was born at Moulins in the Bourbonnais, on the 14th of March 1823.
		Throughout a life spent mainly in Paris, Banvilles genial character and cultivated mind won him the friendship of the chief men of letters of his time.
		His plays are written with distinction and refinement, but are deficient in dramatic power; his stories, though marked by fertility of invention, are as a rule conventional and unreal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BANVILLE.htm (810 words)

	Scriptorium - John Banville
		Banville’s fondness for the grim and occasionally gruesome confession is most famously displayed in his trilogy of novels, The Book of Evidence (1989), Ghosts (1993), and Athena (1995) – a trilogy which is frequently and easily compared with Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
		Banville’s ultimate ironic twist, however, belongs to the notion of the genuine among the society of frauds, both in life and art.
		Banville turned his hand to the roman-à-clef in The Untouchable (1998), winning praise from both the professors of literature and the aficionados of the spy thriller.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/banville.html (1691 words)

	Gymn.ca: Melanie Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Banville had finished a strong 6th all-around in both of her previous appearances as a novice at the Canadian championships - the first in Burnaby B.C. in 1999 and then again in Montreal in 2000.
		Banville was poised for her first taste of international competition as a member of the Canadian national team in September as part of a junior team that was set to compete against an American team in Texas.
		Banville also earned the highest combined score on the uneven bars — an amazing result considering that during pre meet training, she suffered a very scary fall during a double layout dismount (she held on to the bar too long and crashed into the high bar).
	www.gymn.ca /athletes/women/banville.shtml (1656 words)

	Eclipse - John Banville
		"Banville's flighted prose, in which atmosphere is evoked through a dripfeed of lyricism, is superbly suited to his subject matter; his willed patience and defiant wordiness resonate with an almost unbearable sense of claustrophobia and the lurid excess of breakdown.
		"Banville's studied register complements the fusty yet histrionic atmosphere of the haunted old house, and is the perfect medium for representing the inner life and all its speculation.
		Banville's writing is rich and evocative, as he effortlessly conjures with language.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/banvillej/eclipse.htm (2134 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| John Banville tells Emma Brockes why his novel is a 'real book'
		But Banville's brilliance is his ability to pull apart the small, external triggers that cause one's huge internal movements - the boy who falls in love with a woman as she passes him an apple - without breaking the surface.
		Banville issued a fantastically grand reply which began, "Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia." It has since been suggested that the bad review was a long-range political strategy to elbow McEwan out of the Booker running, which Banville says is "ridiculous".
		Banville is not a part of "London literary circles", as he puts it; he lives in Dublin with his partner and two daughters and has two adult sons from his first marriage, the breakdown of which might be explained in part by the heavy atmosphere he creates when he's writing.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1589945,00.html (1647 words)

	The Elegant Variation: BANVILLE AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY
		Banville shifts the point of view from Goethe's omniscient third-person narrator to a very limited first-person writer-narrator who is involved in the action.
		In Banville's writing (and I would tend to argue that Banville, with and after the tetralogy, has moved to a less conspicuously postmodernist position), this crisis is overstepped by reflecting on its historical conditions.
		Banville's trademark linguistic virtuosity is everpresent but some of the chilly control is relinquished and Max mourns and rages in ways that mark a new direction for Banville - and there's at least one great twist which you'll never see coming.
	marksarvas.blogs.com /elegvar/2003/10/banville_and_th.html (7843 words)

	Adam Ash: Bookplanet: Banville wins Booker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The veteran Irish stylist John Banville brought off one of the biggest literary coups last night when he took the £50,000 Booker Prize from under the noses of the bookies and the literary insiders.
		Banville's vindication at the age of 59 with his 14th novel is a victory of style over a melancholy content which makes his book one of the least commercial on the six-strong shortlist.
		Banville works within a narrower spectrum, bringing to life a series of monologues for inter-related and cadaverously fleshed-out dummies".
	adamash.blogspot.com /2005/10/bookplanet-banville-wins-booker.html (860 words)

	Amazon.com: The Untouchable (Vintage International): Books: John Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In "The Untouchable," Banville offers a perceptive glimpse into the world of those among us who are obliged to lead a double life, sometimes by choice, as in the case of spies, and sometimes not, as in the case of homosexuals.
		Banville conveys the querulous self-deprecating, yet stubbornly principled, career of one claiming to be Irish, royalist, husband, father and queer, relative of the Windsors yet a committed Marxist loyal to Stalin's regime, all while in the pay of the Crown in peace, hot, and cold wars.
		Banville's prose is flawless, his narrative voice is always at perfect pitch, and his characters and story are a masterpiece of verisimilitude.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679767479?v=glance (2004 words)

	Banville's blues: ThePost.ie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Banville isn't fond of mysticism, but he invokes it nonetheless when describing what he does for a living.
		Banville has said before - paraphrasing Iris Murdoch, he hastens to add - that each new novel is an attempt to atone for the last.
		Banville has two children with Patricia Quinn, the former chairwoman of the Arts Council, and two children from his marriage to Janet.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2005/06/05/story5312.asp (1244 words)

	ABC News: Ireland's Booker winner Banville riding 'Sea' wave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In accepting the prize, the 59-year-old rankled some with his comment that "this time" it had gone to a "work of art." "The Sea" is the story of a recently widowed man visiting the seaside resort where he spent time as a young man and trying to find the meaning of life-changing memories.
		Banville said writers err when they take on topics like Iraq and the September 11, 2001, attacks, and he sparked a strong reaction when he called McEwan's "Saturday," which dealt with those themes, a "dismayingly bad book" in the New York Review of Books.
		Banville said he was stunned at the reactions to his review, both positive and negative.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1295845 (373 words)

	John Banville
		Banville's fictional portrait of the 15th-century Polish astronomer Dr Copernicus (1976) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) and was the first in a series of books exploring the lives of eminent scientists and scientific ideas.
		Banville gained international recognition with his next four books, usually described as his 'scientific tetralogy', and linked by their common interest in the status of mathematical or astronomical structures as alternative 'languages' of perception.
		One of the hallmarks of Banville's writing is an inter-textual repetition, the carrying of motifs or allusions from novel to novel.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth13 (1446 words)

	The Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The narrator of The Sea, Banville's fourteenth novel, is Max Morden, a middle-aged arts historian mourning the recent death of his wife from cancer.
		Banville, 59, who was born in Wexford and now lives in Dublin, is the first Irish winner since Roddy Doyle in 1993.
		Banville said he was one of those who welcomed the Twist with open arms – and legs.
	www.theherald.co.uk /news/48649.html (551 words)

	Essays in Little - Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yet again, she is the weary and exiled spirit that haunts the forest of Fontainebleau, and is a stranger among the woodland folk, the fades and nixies.
		De Banville was for long almost alone among poets in his freedom from Weltschmerz, from regret and desire for worlds lost or impossible.
		M. De Banville's muse is content to wear roses in her locks, and perhaps may retain, for many years, a laurel leaf from the ancient laurel tree which once sheltered the poet at Turbia.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/gnrl/collections/EssaysinLittle/chap5.html (5868 words)

	John Banville -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Banville is an Irish novelist, born December 8, 1945 in (additional info and facts about Wexford) Wexford.
		He was shortlisted for the 1989 (additional info and facts about Booker Prize) Booker Prize (Book of Evidence), and won the Guinness Peat Aviation Award the same year.
		Banville is known for his precise (some would say cold) prose style, (United States writer (born in Russia) (1899-1977)) Nabokovian in inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_banville.htm (110 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Untouchable: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Banville vividly recreates not only the political and social turmoil of the period but also the intellectual experimentation and the search for values spawned by these turbulent times.
		In prose that is astonishing in its facility and virtuosity, Banville sweeps away the fustiness of previous journalistic accounts of the Cambridge spies and creates flawed, breathing humans.
		I have to say I enjoyed this novel and was intrigued by Banville's technique of using fiction to explain and elaborate on the few facts that are known of the fifty years that the group passed British and American secrets to the soviets.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/033033932X (756 words)

	Théodore de Banville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodore Faullain de Banville (March 14, 1823 – March 15, 1891) was a French poet and writer.
		The poems encountered some adverse criticism, but secured for their author the approbation and friendship of Alfred de Vigny and Jules Janin.
		He printed other volumes of verse, among which the Odes funambulesques (1857) received unstinted praise from Victor Hugo, to whom they were dedicated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_de_Banville (326 words)

	The Sea by John Banville \| PopMatters Book Review
		I'm sure Banville's book is that and more, but his storytelling style shuts out readers like myself who might expect a bit more action and involvement beyond flinging the book aside every few paragraphs to fetch the thesaurus.
		But this is Banville's style; to toss the reader in a room with a problem-soaked narrator as he attempts to sort shit out.
		Banville forces the reader to stay with him, to whirl and twirl through Max's emotions as he pieces his story together.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/s/sea-2005.shtml (1434 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Banville's Sea takes 2005 Booker
		Banville told the audience his success came as a "great surprise" to him.
		Banville said: "Even if I'd lost I'd still think it was a good year for the Booker.
		Banville said he had been plied with champagne that day and joked: "On that occasion I was so drunk that if I'd won the prize I wouldn't have been able to stand up.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4319734.stm (420 words)

	Banville pulls off Booker coup : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Author of The Sea, Banville, 59, had been placed a 7-1 outsider by bookies and when the announcement was made, critics said it was one of the "biggest literary coups" in the history of fiction writing.
		Banville said he would spend the 50,000-pound prize money on "good work and strong drink".
		The Sea is Banville's 14th novel and is described as a victory of style over a melancholy content, which makes his book one of the least commercial amongst the six books short-listed for Booker.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1516059,001100040006.htm (457 words)

	Irish Times Article - Banville wins Booker Prize and £50,000 for 'The Sea' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Banville was last night declared winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize.
		Wexford-born Banville's winning novel, The Sea, is the elegiac story of an elderly widower returning to the seaside village where he spent his childhood summers.
		Speaking last night at the Guildhall, Banville said winning was "a great surprise, a great pleasure".
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2005/1011/849553040HM1BOOKERPRIZE.html (465 words)

	RTE News - Ahern congratulates Banville on Booker win
		Mr Ahern said Mr Banville was a deserving winner who had dedicated his adult life to his art.
		Mr Banville was a surprise winner of what is considered one of Britain's most prestigious literary awards.
		The narrator in the novel is a middle aged man mourning the death of his wife as he returns to the seaside town where he spent a childhood summer.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/1011/booker.html?rss (254 words)

	Shroud - John Banville
		But there is wilfulness on Banville's part, too, in a couple of passages at the midpoint of the book that take the narrative clean off its hinges.
		Banville delays producing the rabbit much longer than the trick requires, then produces a series of further rabbits, none of them worthy of the flourish with which he unveils them.
		John Banville's Shroud isn't a sequel to his earlier Eclipse (see our review), but they are complementary texts.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/banvillej/shroud.htm (1725 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shroud: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Like Banville's narrators in other novels, the elderly Axel Vander of Shroud is unreliable and often dishonest, self-concerned but not self-aware.
		Cass Cleave, the daughter of Alexander Cleave, the narrator of Banville's previous novel, Eclipse, has visions and seizures, and Vander regards her as mad, but she and Vander develop a relationship of almost religious significance.
		Shroud is an impressive and chilling piece of art; Banville's prose is hypnotic and the characters are extremely well portrayed, yet this is not an easy read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330483145 (730 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sea (Man Booker Prize): Books: John Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is non pareil, and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a master’s skill.
		Banville's magnificent new novel, which won this year's Man Booker Prize and is being rushed into print by Knopf, presents a man mourning his wife's recent death—and his blighted life.
		Max's cruelly capricious complicity in the sad history that unfolds, and the facts kept hidden from the reader until the shocking denouement, brilliantly dramatize the unpredictability of life and the incomprehensibility of death.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0307263118/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/104-6199953-2931156 (2265 words)

	USATODAY.com - Banville's 'The Sea' wins Booker Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Banville's offering trumped Julian Barnes, former winner Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith to take the $88,000 prize at an awards ceremony Monday night in London.
		Banville, who was considered an outsider to claim the prestigious award, triumphed after a debate among judges, who had been torn between his work and Ishiguro's novel, Never Let Me Go.
		The Sea— Banville's 14th novel — is narrated by Max Morden, a middle-aged arts historian, who, mourning the death of his wife, returns to the Irish seaside town where he spent a summer childhood.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-10-10-booker-prize_x.htm (511 words)

	Booker winner Banville riding ‘Sea’ wave - BOOKS - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Banville said writers err when they take on topics like Iraq and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and he sparked a strong reaction when he called McEwan’s “Saturday,” which dealt with those themes, a “dismayingly bad book” in the New York Review of Books.
		Banville says he doesn’t read reviews, although he writes them prolifically and was literary editor of the Irish Times.
		Banville said “The Sea” probably wasn’t his best work and regards “The Book of Evidence,” which was short-listed for the Booker, as more worthy.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9980229 (662 words)

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