John Banville (born 1945) is an Irish novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence (1989), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He sometimes writes under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.
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".
A brilliant, engaging and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a character based on the real Cambridge intellectual elites who famously spied on the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century. But Maskell--scholar, adventurer, soldier, art curator and more--respected and still living in England well past his retirement from espionage, looked like he was going to get away with it when unexpectedly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked. The question of why, and by whom assumes less importance for Maskell than the soul-searching questions of who, ultimately, he really is, why he spied in the first place, and whether his many-faceted existence adds up to an authentic life.
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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...
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》...
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