SOURCE: "Science, Art, and the Shipwreck of Knowledge: The Novels of John Banville," in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall, 1997, pp. 510-33.
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."
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