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Conversations with John Banville
About This Book
John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for it, his passion for painting continues to influence and inform his work. Banville conceives the novel as a work of art aimed not at the present, but for the ages. He aspires to create narratives that offer readers a sense of what it is to be conscious, human, and feeling, and aims to convey his conviction that "the familiar is always unfamiliar, the ordinary extraordinary." Conversations with John Banville is the first interview collection with this esteemed writer and includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces. The collection also includes discussions aboutâand with, in the case of James Gleick's 2014 interviewâBanville's alter ego, Benjamin Black, who writes crime novels. Highly engaging and insightful, Banville's interviews offer a variety of writerly autobiography regarding what he has aimed to do in his work and how he continues to pursue perfection, which he has known from the beginning must be impossible.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- John Banville: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide
- The Beauty and the Tenderness of the World
- An Interview with John Banville
- Interviewing John Banville
- John Banville, the Art of Fiction: No. 200
- Katherine Wootton Interviews John Banville
- The Millions Interview: John Banville
- John Banville with Paula Marantz Cohen
- The Greatest Invention of Humankind: The Sentence
- An Interview with John Banville
- Marvelous Masks
- âTwo Hatsâ: John Banville and James Gleick
- âI Hate Genreâ: John Banvilleâs Interview with Jon Wiener
- In Conversation with John Banville and Ed Victor
- âGlancing Encounters Are No Goodâ
- Finding a Jamesian Tone and Digging Down
- Dermot Bolger and John Banville
- âTo Make the World Blush in the Awareness of Itselfâ
- About the Editors