John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of more than ten novels, including The Book of Evidence, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guinness Peat Aviation Award. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea in 2005. He lives in Dublin.
One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art expert to the Queen. Now he has been unmasked as a Russian agent and subjected to a disgrace that is almost a kind of death. But at whose instigation?
As Maskell retraces his tortuous path from his recruitment at Cambridge to the airless upper regions of the establishment, we discover a figure of manifold doubleness: Irishman and Englishman; husband, father, and lover of men; betrayer and dupe. Beautifully written, filled with convincing fictional portraits of Maskell's co-conspirators, and vibrant with the mysteries of loyalty and identity, The Untouchable places John Banville in the select company of both Conrad and le Carre.
Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
"Contemporary fiction gets no better than this... Banville's books teem with life and humor." - Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review
"Victor Maskell is one of the great characters in recent fiction... The Untouchable is the best work of art in any medium on [its] subject." - Washington Post Book World
"As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland; Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding." - San Francisco Chronicle
發表於2025-03-25
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無法企及 嗯,說實話,如果不是對這個間諜這個行業有著異常濃厚興趣的話,可以不看瞭。 我是衝著劍橋四傑的名頭買的。嗯,結果,很顯然,這是一本類似描寫他們生活的書,當然,作者的文字功力還是深厚的,當然,不是東方式的深厚,看著文中大珠小珠落玉盤般的句子,總是會...
評分無法企及 嗯,說實話,如果不是對這個間諜這個行業有著異常濃厚興趣的話,可以不看瞭。 我是衝著劍橋四傑的名頭買的。嗯,結果,很顯然,這是一本類似描寫他們生活的書,當然,作者的文字功力還是深厚的,當然,不是東方式的深厚,看著文中大珠小珠落玉盤般的句子,總是會...
評分作者的各種描寫都很厲害。所以也不存在文字缺乏力量的問題瞭。sexual tension棒呆!∪・ω・∪與其對做愛的直接描寫,感覺哈特曼迴國的一段最動人。作者寫的愛情小說一定很好看。瓦德利亞小姐反復齣現,個人認為隻是需要一個傾訴者,像起興這種修辭手法。班維爾桑是個能體會...
評分John Banville(約翰 班維爾1945-)是一位修辭傢,他文字優美,喜歡用生僻詞,類似於納博科夫的咬文嚼字。 對於Banville,中國讀者比較熟悉的應該是他的獲奬小說《The Sea》。我記得當年中國齣版社就是打著文字的旗號宣傳這本布剋獲奬小說的中文譯本,而諷刺的是,《The Sea》...
評分作者的各種描寫都很厲害。所以也不存在文字缺乏力量的問題瞭。sexual tension棒呆!∪・ω・∪與其對做愛的直接描寫,感覺哈特曼迴國的一段最動人。作者寫的愛情小說一定很好看。瓦德利亞小姐反復齣現,個人認為隻是需要一個傾訴者,像起興這種修辭手法。班維爾桑是個能體會...
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談戀愛就好好談,不要搞共産主義那一套
評分beautiful prose. Fiction yes, but I would not be surprised Victor was Anthony Blunt himself
評分恨不早讀班維爾,語言的畫麵錶現力超強,後半本幾乎是懷著迫切又不捨的心情讀完的,當然劍橋四傑這個題材本身也很有看點。。
評分恨不早讀班維爾,語言的畫麵錶現力超強,後半本幾乎是懷著迫切又不捨的心情讀完的,當然劍橋四傑這個題材本身也很有看點。。
評分談戀愛就好好談,不要搞共産主義那一套
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