
	Where results make sense

Topic: John Banville

Related Topics

Roddy Doyle

Oliver St John Gogarty

James Clarence Mangan

Andrew Bree

Brendan Behan

Harry Mulisch

Blood Meridian

Harold Bloom

Jose Saramago

Cormac McCarthy

List of famous Irish people

Johannes Scotus Erigena

Nathanael West

Seamus Heaney

Hamilton Harty

In the News (Wed 25 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	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.
		John Banville on the Web – David Alan Sellers’s page offers some brief introductions to Banville’s works and their connections with postmodern thought.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/banville.html (1691 words)

	The Sea by John Banville: Reviews
		Banville's book recalls such poised masters as Proust and Beckett (and, indeed, James) not because he wants you to know how well-read he is, but to invoke a kind of guarantee that he knows fiction has responsibilities to its subjects as well as its readers.
		Banville's novel is remarkable in the end not for what it says, self-consciously, about life's great themes but for what it knows, and richly conveys, about what it is to be alive, while continuously experiencing loss.
		Banville's famously torrid affair with his thesaurus has previously birthed erudite but emotionally delimited characters, whose fierce powers of observation and description are rendered poignantly meaningless by failings of moral temperament, but The Sea nudges this pathos toward parody.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/banvillejohn/sea?q=banville+sea (968 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: John Banville
		Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, on 8 December 1945 to Martin and Agnes (Doran) Banville.
		Banville’s fiction suffers from divided loyalties: it constantly yearns to be something else, something which dispenses with language; the sensuous beauty of its reflective idiom, however, suggests that this kind of literature can live with its own longing, and make a poetic virtue out of that deficiency.
		Banville first visited Prague in the early 1980s and on several occasions since, but as usual his book is not easy to classify, being neither a guidebook nor a travelogue, more an intense “faithless lover’s letter of apology” that best encapsulates his feelings after leaving Prague, a city travelers inevitably fall in love with.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=246 (2349 words)

	John Banville : The Sea : Shroud : Book 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 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.
		John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/banville.htm (1746 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shroud: Books: John Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Banville has written a beautifully crafted thriller, with meticulous prose, that prepares readers for the dreadful moment - the meeting of Axel Vander and his nemesis from whom he is so overwrought to buy silence for fear of being exposed.
		Banville is one of the few living author who can maintain the flow of a novel with a taut sense while flourishing different themes as well as exploring and exposing, delineating the intricacies of human emotions.
		The prose of John Banville is a marvel and is admirable.
	www.amazon.ca /Shroud-John-Banville/dp/037572530X (3659 words)

	Banville, John Criticism and Essays
		Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, on December 8, 1945.
		Banville's fiction studies the relationship between reality and art, and departs from a traditional focus in Irish fiction on historical and social concerns.
		Philip MacCann states, "Banville's art eschews the vulgar artificiality of life in favor of the stylish artificiality of art itself." Banville is generally respected for his well-researched and erudite books, and critics have credited him for his influence on contemporary Irish literature.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/banville-john (923 words)

	Banville's waves - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		WHEN JOHN Banville was announced the winner of the Man Booker Prize last year for his novel, The Sea, "a shocked hush fell on the glittering gathering", as one report described it, and "ice began to form on their upper slopes".
		Banville's The Sea was a long shot, given its dark, dense, meditative mood, its preoccupation with grief and death, its highly self-conscious literariness.
		Banville wasn't flabbergasted: he meant what he said, he says now from his home in Dublin, and repeats it - his book, The Sea, might be a novel, but it is, first and last, a work of art.
	theage.com.au /news/books/banvilles-waves/2006/05/04/1146335866943.html (1781 words)

	John Banville
		Irish novelist John Banville was born in Wexford in Ireland in 1945.
		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.
		John Banville scooped the prestigious award for 2005 in what was claimed to be the closest-fought Man Booker Prize in years.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth13 (1457 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Booker win 'surprises' Banville
		Banville told the BBC News website he was feeling "lightly cooked" after a hectic few hours in the wake of his win.
		Banville said The Sea's dark and obsessive themes may have struck a chord with the judges on a "deep level".
		Banville is philosophical about comparisons his work has drawn to that of fellow Irishman and literary giant Samuel Beckett, who Banville acknowledges as his mentor.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4329844.stm (792 words)

	Banville, John \| Authors \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Banville's "art trilogy" which followed feature Freddie Montgomery, a murderer, as narrator, but an alternative starting point is The Untouchable (1997), the most humorous and, arguably, the most accessible of Banville's novels.
		Banville's memories of his childhood in Ireland are also a source of inspiration in his later work, particularly in The Sea.
		John Banville: A Critical Study by Joseph McMinn (Gill and MacMillan) considers his writing up to and including The Body of Evidence, while McMinn's The Supreme Fictions of John Banville (Manchester University Press) is a commentary on Banville's fiction in the context of contemporary critical theory.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-241,00.html (743 words)

	John Banville : The Sea : Shroud : Book 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.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /world/banville.htm (1736 words)

	John Banville Biography and Summary
		It would be unfair to label John Banville a "writer's writer," because it would suggest he is not a writer easily accessible to the majority of readers.
		John Banville is the most interesting and resourceful Irish novelist of his generation.
		John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Banville (265 words)

	John Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Banville was born in Wexford in 1945 and was educated in Wexford.
		Banville's fictional portrait of the 15th century Polish astronomer Dr Copernicus won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the first in a series of books exploring the lives of eminent scientists and scientific and philosophical ideas.
		John Banville is a philosophical novelist and as an artist is concerned with the nature of perception, the conflict between imagination and reality and the existential isolation of the individual.
	www.writersweek.ie /award/2006_john_banville.htm (272 words)

	John Banville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist and journalist.
		Banville is regarded as one of Ireland's finest writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and a supreme stylist.
		John Banville is considered by critics as a master stylist of the English language, and his writing has been described as perfectly-crafted, beautiful, dazzling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Banville (1067 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Banville's Sea takes 2005 Booker
		John Banville has won the UK's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for his novel The Sea.
		Banville told the audience his success came as a "great surprise" to him.
		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 /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4319734.stm (428 words)

	JohnBanvillevisit0406 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The staff of the library were especially delighted that John Banville accepted an invitation earlier in the year as it proved to be a busy time for one of Ireland’s leading literary figures.
		Banville won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 with his novel The Sea - with the judges on the night describing the novel as “a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected”.
		Derek Hand from the English Department, an expert on Banville’s work, interviewed John while a captivated audience listened on - the interview was both fascinating and at times humorous - with Banville giving sparkling and candid accounts of the craft of writing and its meaning for him.
	www.spd.dcu.ie /main/news/JohnBanvillevisit0406.shtml (232 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.
		John Banville has written novels with titles such as Ghosts, The Untouchable, and Nightspawn, so it comes as no great surprise that the first part of Eclipse is filled with dreamy scenes and spectral visions.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/banvillej/eclipse.htm (2144 words)

	The Man Booker Prize 2006 :: the Press office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Banville was tonight (Monday 10 October) named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction with The Sea, published by Picador.
		John Sutherland comments, “In an extraordinarily closely contested last round, in which the judges felt the level of the shortlisted novels was as high as it can ever have been, they have agreed to award the Man Booker Prize to John Banville’s The Sea, a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected.
		John Banville was born in Wexford on 8th December 1945 and now lives in Dublin.
	www.themanbookerprize.com /pressoffice/release.php?r=20 (1414 words)

	John Banville Biography
		Irish author John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945.
		Banville worked for some time at the Irish Times and was the paper's literary editor between 1988 and 1999.
		Banville's The Sea achieved high praise, the Daily Telegraph said that "with his fastidious wit, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov...
	www.biogs.com /booker/banville.html (359 words)

	Irish stylist springs Booker surprise \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		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".
	books.guardian.co.uk /bookerprize2005/story/0,16347,1589284,00.html (806 words)

	Amazon.de: The Sea: English Books: John Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and The Sea is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities.
		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.
	www.amazon.de /Sea-John-Banville/dp/0307263118 (2048 words)

	Amazon.com: Kepler: A novel: Books: John Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, the acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe.
		John Banville takes his astonomical fiction "Doctor Copernicus" to the next stage in "Kepler." Both books are powerful feats of the imagination, in which Banville attempts to re-create that curious and pregnant stage in history when the medieval world was giving way to the first stirrings of modernity.
		Banville has created a multi-dimensioned work, part picaresque, part epistolary novel, part flashback, in which Kepler struggles past politics, religious discord, family distractions and war to seek out the celestial harmonies that he is convinced are there for the discovering.
	www.amazon.com /Kepler-novel-John-Banville/dp/0679743707 (2390 words)

	News \| Irish Author John Banville at Free Library of Philadelphia
		Born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945, Banville was educated at Christian Brother's schools and St. Peter's College in Wexford.
		Banville's twelth and latest novel, Eclipse, is about a successful stage actor, Alexander Cleave, who has suddenly"corpsed" in mid-performance.
		Among the awards Banville has won are: The Allied Irish Banks Fiction Prize, the American-Irish Foundation Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
	www.phila.gov /news/banville_new/banville_new.html (223 words)

	Amazon.com: The Untouchable: Books: John Banville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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's literary transplant, however, results in a beautifully rounded characterization that Blunt, whose personality was severely compartmentalized, could never have hoped to achieve in real life.
		Banville accomplishes this feat with such apparently effortless ease here that this reader, in any event, is left, after reading it, in a swoon of delight which I'm still savouring.
	www.amazon.com /Untouchable-John-Banville/dp/0679767479 (2343 words)

	WAG: Michael Dibdin's Thanksgiving & John Banville's Eclipse
		The narrator of John Banville's Eclipse is--brace yourselves, everyone--haunted by ghosts of his own, but it's not clear who they are, precisely...or even if they're coming from the past.
		It wouldn't be surprising, Banville writes: the house is popularly believed to be haunted by a mother and child who died there.
		There is a literal eclipse in the novel, but Banville uses it metaphorically to describe all his afflicted characters--like Cleave, but there are others--who have fallen into an unexpected shadow of existential darkness.
	www.thewag.net /books/dibdbanv.htm (1282 words)

	The Sigla Blog » Blog Archive » The Sea by John Banville
		John Banville’s characters are certainly distinct from one another but occupy the same Venn diagram of self- satisfied, unfulfilled smugness as each other.
		Banville himself turns 60 later this year, and one can’t help but think that his own mortality is seeping in to his writing.
		Banville’s writing has always had an effortless concinnity to it, but never more so than with this haunting book.
	www.sineadgleeson.com /blog/2005/06/27/the-sea-by-john-banville (931 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)