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William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. [2] 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.
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Oct 1, 2024 · John Banville (born December 8, 1945, Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish novelist and journalist whose fiction is known for being referential, paradoxical, and complex. Common themes throughout his work include loss, obsession, destructive love, and the pain that accompanies freedom. Banville has also published mysteries under the pseudonym Benjamin ...
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- Ill Seen, Ill Said by Samuel Beckett (1981). In terse, haunting prose, Beckett’s novella meditates on the absurdities of life and death, our grim longing for happiness, and “that old tandem” of reality and its unnamable “contrary.”
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864). Aloof, unhappy, and tortured by his own “hyperconsciousness,” Dostoevsky’s narrator prefers to remain underground, away from normal life, because at least there he can be free.
- Ulysses by James Joyce (1922). Filled with convoluted plotting, scrambled syntax, puns, neologisms, and arcane mythological allusions, Ulysses recounts the misadventures of schlubby Dublin advertising salesman Leopold Bloom on a single day, June 16, 1904.
- Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947). Mann retells the Faust legend as the story of wunderkind composer Adrian Leverkühn, who trades his human feeling for a brilliant career and demonic inspiration.
Oct 20, 2022 · There’s certainly plenty of playful stuff in there, such as the character of William Jaybey (named, clearly, after William John Banville), a vengeful biographer, and indeed the whole parallel ...
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Jul 24, 2024 · Born in Wexford on 8 December 1945, John Banville was educated at the Christian Brothers and St Peter’s College in Wexford. He did not attend university, but worked as a clerk and started writing. In 1969 he became copy-editor at the Irish Press and in 1983 he joined The Irish Times, first as sub-editor and from 1988 to 1999 as literary editor.
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John Banville. 1945- [William John Banville]; b. 8 Dec., Wexford, son of office worker in garage-supply business; ed. Christian Brothers, and St. Peter s College, Summerhill, Wexford, where he was taught by Fr. Larkin; bought copy of Ulysses in Liverpool at 17; intended for architect by parents; working as Aer Lingus clerk, 1968; m. an American ...
