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William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust , via Nabokov ", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.
John Banville is an Irish novelist and journalist whose fiction is known for being referential, paradoxical, and complex. Common themes throughout his work include loss, obsession, and destructive love. He also wrote a mystery series under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W.B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.
Oct 20, 2022 · John Banville: ‘I’m 76 now, and I’m as baffled by the world as I was when I was five’. The Singularities, his new novel, may be the acclaimed author’s final work of literary fiction. If ...
Regarded as the most stylistically elaborate Irish writer of his generation, John Banville is a philosophical novelist concerned with the nature of perception, the conflict between imagination and reality, and the existential isolation of the individual.
May 20, 2023 · John Banville Puts Two of His Detectives on a Murder Case In a new novel, “The Lock-Up,” investigators from the novelist’s previous books join forces in 1950s Dublin. Share full article
Oct 25, 2022 · The Irish novelist John Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance that it’s all too easy to view his work as an aesthetic project, an exercise in pleasure giving.
