John Banville Summary

John Banville is the most interesting and resourceful Irish novelist of his generation. A writer who has let his published work do most of his talking for him, he has done more than most of his contem... Read more

In the following essay, Deane, a well-known poet, discusses Banville's awareness that the world he creates in his books is fictive. John Banville has so far produced three books: Long Lankin... Read more

In the following interview, Banville talks about his career and his approach to literature. John Banville's narrators despair over the intractable chaos of life. They worry that chance and i... Read more

In the following review, MacCann discusses Banville's Athena and concludes that "At the heart of his writing appears to be a fear of uglification by the ordinary." Joyce descri... Read more

In the following review, Gorra describes the mood of Banville's Athena and states that, "Plot counts for nothing here, or seems not to, and mood becomes all—a mood sustained by a ... Read more

In the following review. Tracy praises Banville's adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's The Broken Jug as "funnier and grimmer" than the original. Der Zerbrochene Krug/The... Read more

In the following essay, Jackson traces one of Banville's major themes: "the situation of living everyday life in the context of postmodern understandings of knowledge and truth." ... Read more

In the following essay, McMinn analyzes the way Banville portrays Ireland and its people in his fiction. To examine the imaginative role which Ireland plays in the novels of John Banville might see... Read more

In the following review, Whiteside praises Banville's Ghosts, but calls it a difficult book. It's fair to say that anyone approaching this dense, elusive, richly allusive novel withou... Read more