Книга: John Banville «The Sea»
'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. 'A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation' - Allan Massie, "Scotsman" . 'You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a... Издательство: "Picador" (2010) Формат: 130x195, 272 стр.
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John Banville
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John Banville (born 1945) is an Irish
Banville is known for his precise and cold prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators. His stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has". [Steinberg, Sybil." [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6280841.html?text=john+banville Who Is John Banville?] ". Publishers Weekly, July, 1995. Retrieved on
Biography
Banville was born in
Educated at a Christian Brothers' school and at St Peter's College in Wexford, he did not attend university. After school he worked as a clerk at
After the "Irish Press" collapsed in 1995, [" [http://archives.tcm.ie/westernpeople/2005/05/25/story25483.asp The day the Press stopped rolling] ". "Western People" (IRL),
Banville also writes under the pen name Benjamin Black. [From a Radio 4 programme on 15th October 2007 in which Banville was interviewed.] His first novel under this pen name was "Christine Falls", which was followed by "The Silver Swan" in 2007. Banville has two adult sons with his wife, the American textile artist Janet Dunham. They met during his visit to San Francisco in 1968 where she was a student at the
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Banville is considered by critics as a master stylist of the English language, and his writing has been described as perfectly-crafted, beautiful, dazzling. [" [http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375725302 Shroud] ". Random House, 2004. Retrieved on
Awards
Year | Prize | Work |
1976 | "Doctor Copernicus" | |
1981 | "Kepler" | |
Allied Irish Bank Fiction Prize | ||
American-Irish Foundation Award | "Birchwood" | |
1989 | "The Book of Evidence" | |
1989 | Booker Prize (shortlisted) | "The Book of Evidence" |
2005 | "The Sea" | |
2006 | "The Sea" |
Works
hort story collection
* "Long Lankin" (1970; revised ed.1984)
Novels
* "Nightspawn" (1971)
* "Birchwood" (1973)
* "Doctor Copernicus: A Novel" (1976)
* "Kepler, a Novel" (1981)
* "The Newton Letter: An Interlude" (1982)
* "Mefisto" (1986)
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* "Ghosts" (1993)
* "Athena: A Novel" (1995)
* "The Ark" (1996) (only 260 copies published)
* "The Untouchable" (1997)
* "Eclipse" (2000)
* "Shroud" (2002)
* "Prague Pictures: Portrait Of A City" (2003)
* "The Sea" (2005)
* "The Sinking City" (forthcoming [cite news|title= Manchester literary journal to publish new work by John Banville|url= http://www.crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/FREE/810019989/1083/toc/-/-/manchester-literary-journal-to-publish-new-work-by-john-banville|work= Crain's Manchester Business|date= 2008-10-01|accessdate= 2008-10-11] )
Plays
* "The Broken Jug: After
* "Seachange" (performed 1994 in the
* "Dublin 1742" (performed 2002 in The Ark, Dublin; a play for 9-14 year olds; unpublished)
* "God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist" (2000)
* "Love In The Wars" (adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's
* "Conversation In The Mountains" (radio play, forthcoming 2008)
As "Benjamin Black"
* "Christine Falls" (2006)
* "The Silver Swan" (2007)
* "The Lemur" (2008, previously serialised in "
Notes
Further reading
* "John Banville, a critical study" by Joseph McMinn; Gill and MacMillan; ISBN 0-7171-1803-7
* "The Supreme Fictions of John Banville" by Joseph McMinn; (October 1999); Manchester University Press; ISBN 0-7190-5397-8
* "John Banville: A Critical Introduction" by Rüdiger Imhoff (October 1998) Irish American Book Co; ISBN 0-86327-582-6
* "John Banville: Exploring Fictions" by Derek Hand; (June 2002); Liffey Press; ISBN 1-904148-04-2
* "Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue John Banville" Edited by Derek Hand; (June 2006)
External links
* [http://www.benjaminblackbooks.com Benjamin Black's Official Website]
* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/benjaminblack Benjamin Black's Books on Macmillan.com]
* [http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/former_literature/johnbanville.html Aosdána biographical note]
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* [http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_John_Banville_interview.htm As clear as mirror glass. John Banville in interview with Three Monkeys Online Magazine]
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* [http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0813,trouble-is-his-business,389029,10.html John Banville interview with the Village Voice about Benjamin Black]
* [http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/content_item.php?issue=1&id=0 Chapter 1 of "The Sinking City"]
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