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Back to the Present, Forward to the Past

Autor: International Association For The Study Of Irish Literatures. Conference

Número de Páginas: 372

The island of Ireland, north and south, has produced a great diversity of writing in both English and Irish for hundreds of years, often using the memories embodied in its competing views of history as a fruitful source of literary inspiration. Placing Irish literature in an international context, these two volumes explore the connection between Irish history and literature, in particular the Rebellion of 1798, in a more comprehensive, diverse and multi-faceted way than has often been the case in the past. The fifty-three authors bring their national and personal viewpoints as well as their critical judgements to bear on Irish literature in these stimulating articles. The contributions also deal with topics such as Gothic literature, ideology, and identity, as well as gender issues, connections with the other arts, regional Irish literature, in particular that of the city of Limerick, translations, the works of Joyce, and comparisons with the literature of other nations. The contributors are all members of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures). Back to the Present: Forward to the Past. Irish Writing and History since 1798 will be of interest to both...

Infinis

Autor: John Banville

Número de Páginas: 259

" Un roman audacieux, funambulesque, où Banville pirouette entre ciel et terre. " L'Express Adam Godley, un brillant mathématicien, repose dans sa chambre, au seuil de la mort. À ses côtés se trouvent sa seconde épouse, ses deux enfants, ainsi que la femme de son fils, Helen, une comédienne à la beauté troublante. En un jour, en un lieu, ce monde mortel et imparfait va recevoir la visite des dieux de l'Olympe, des dieux à l'esprit facétieux, qui vont se plaire à prendre la place des humains pour satisfaire leurs désirs illicites. Hermès, le fils de Zeus, narrateur espiègle de cette tragicomédie qui ressemble à un songe, se prêtera lui-même à ce jeu, tandis qu'Adam revivra dans son esprit le souvenir de ses années passées. Dans ce récit étincelant où réel et merveilleux se côtoient, John Banville interroge, avec humour et gravité, le sens de notre existence, son mystère et sa beauté.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

Autor: Liam Harte

Número de Páginas: 719

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts. The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and...

Territoires de l'étrange dans la littérature irlandaise au XXe siècle

Autor: Gaïd Girard

Número de Páginas: 217

Au-delà d’un imaginaire légendaire connu et d’une tradition gothique qui, de Melmoth à Dracula, a durablement marqué le fantastique européen, la littérature irlandaise contemporaine a inventé de nouvelles formes d’expression de l’inquiétude et du spectral.

Troubling Late Modernism

Autor: Doug Battersby

Número de Páginas: 321

Discusses how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period, including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride.

Conversations with John Banville

Autor: Earl G. Ingersoll , John Cusatis

Número de Páginas: 216

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 about—and with, in the case of James Gleick’s 2014 interview—Banville’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...

John Banville

Autor: Derek Hand

Número de Páginas: 256

Trompe(-)l'œil

Autor: Philippe Romanski , Aïssatou Sy-wonyu

Número de Páginas: 396

Un titre comme le nôtre, Trompe(-)l’œil, n’est pas sans rappeler le paradoxe du Crétois. En effet, le livre dit-il, en cet endroit et à coup sûr, ce qu’il est vraiment ? Peut-on, a priori, lui faire confiance et ainsi perdre de vue qu’il ne s’agit peut-être que d’un leurre ? Le questionnement ne peut toutefois, pour l’instant, exiger de notre part une réponse qui nous forcerait à préciser la perspective et les lignes de fuite de cet ouvrage. Contentons-nous donc ici, au risque de déplaire, de ne lever qu’un coin du voile afin de ne pas invalider le désir de la lecture et de la relecture : disons simplement que ces contributions traiteront du mensonge, du faux, de l’imitation et de la dissimulation dans le monde anglophone. Nous toucherons aux domaines, qui toujours s’entrecoupent, de la littérature, de l’histoire, de la politique et de l’image.

Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story

Autor: Carlo Comanducci , Alex Wilkinson

Número de Páginas: 211

In this book, multiple authors and perspectives converge on the materiality of storytelling in order to court its potentialities and flesh out its tensions. Reflecting through its methodological multiplicity not only the vast array of discourses and disciplines that concern themselves with the study of narration, but also the various and variable subjects of the act of telling, the collective effort of this volume is less to map or track than to amplify the possibilities of contingent situations, embodied relations and specific texts in which, beyond the tale, the telling itself speaks and matters.

Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader

Autor: John Banville

Número de Páginas: 337

The material collected here is a treasure trove, a fine retrospective and a comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland’s greatest living novelist, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012’s Ancient Light; each piece standing alone, short-story-like, but also resonating with those around it and representing the novel from which it comes. There are radio plays, some published in print for the first time here. There is a judicious selection of his essays and reviews. Perhaps most beguiling of all are the pieces of memoir, the early work (including Banville’s first-ever piece of published fiction, from 1966) and the chance to see facsimiles of the handwritten first draft of the opening section of The Infinities. Possessed of a Past is an extraordinary document of the writer’s life and work across nearly fifty years of practice, simultaneously offering the perfect introduction to Banville’s sublime art and manna to devoted readers.

Sangre en los estantes

Autor: Paco Camarasa

Número de Páginas: 372

La historia del género negro, el más popular de la literatura, contada por su más prestigioso y reconocido experto en España. Sangre en los estantes es el libro de cabecera para todos los amantes de la novela negra de nuestro país. De la mano de Paco Camarasa, uno de los mayores especialistas en la materia, ex librero y comisario de BCNegra, este es un libro ordenado por un buen librero, de la A a la Z, con la historia de este ya mítico género literario, hoy en día tan de moda. El libro nos ofrece un recorrido por los grandes nombres del género, explicándonos sus mayores aportaciones. También despliega un sinfín de anécdotas y desmenuza las diferencias dentro del género por países y culturas, las subcategorías dentro de lo que denominamos novela negra y un sinfín de historias. Todo ello relatado con la sabiduría, la pasión y la proximidad característica del gran Paco Camarasa. Por este motivo fue el más querido y reconocido experto en el género, y siempre consiguió mover a los lectores. «Un libro imprescindible para cualquier amante del género negro.» DONNA LEON «Pregúntale a Paco por cualquier libro negro o blanco, verde o azul. Lo conoce. Y encima,...

LES OEUVRES DE JOHN BANVILLE

Autor: Francoise.. Canon Roger

LA PRESENCE DANS LES OEUVRES DE JOHN BANVILLE D'UN MODE DE LECTURE INCORPORE, DECLENCHE ET ENCOURAGE UNE RECEPTION REFLEXIVE. L'ANALYSE D'UNE TELLE LECTURE S'ATTACHE A INDIQUER COMMENT LA FICTION ET LA VALEUR REFLEXIVE S'ARTICULENT ENTRE ELLES ET LA FACON DONT, EN RETOUR, LA VALEUR REFLEXIVE PERMET DE SITUER LA FICTION DANS L'HERITAGE LITTERAIRE, CELUI DE L'IRLANDE EN PARTICULIER.

Imposturas

Autor: John Banville

Número de Páginas: 248

Un estudio del deseo y la identidad. Una novela magistral y conmovedora de la mano del Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras John Banville «La belleza reside en cada una de las novelas de John Banville. En sus manos de orfebre tallador de palabras, este mundo extraño, a veces ajeno y siempre misterioso, se vuelve un lugar más habitable, hermoso, y el lector tiene la sensación de que al menos en ese transcurrir de páginas la vida merece la pena ser vivida. [...] No hay truco que valga. Banville es puro arte.» Inés Martín Rodrigo, ABC Axel Vander, anciano dandi de las letras, no es el hombre que aparenta ser. Cuando recibe una carta misteriosa que amenaza con desvelar sus secretos, viaja a Turín para encontrarse con su autora. Allí, nublado por la edad y el alcohol e incapaz de distinguir entre realidad y ficción, se enfrentará cara a cara con Cass Cleave, la mujer que tiene el poder de desenmascararlo. ¿Qué fin persigue la joven, destruir a Vander o salvarlo? Atrapados en una realidad distorsionada, ambos personajes gravitan el uno hacia el otro en una relación oscura y perturbadora, condenada al desastre desde el primer momento. La crítica ha dicho... «Uno de esos...

John Banville and His Precursors

Autor: Pietra Palazzolo , Michael Springer , Stephen Butler

Número de Páginas: 267

Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville's novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry James, to thinkers such as Freud, Heidegger, and Blanchot. Reading the full range of Banville's writings - from his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea to his latest book, Mrs Osmond – John Banville and His Precursors reveals the richness of the author's work. In this way, the book also raises questions about the contemporary moment's relationship to a variety of intellectual and cultural traditions - Romanticism, Modernism, existentialism – and how the significance of these can be appreciated in new and often surprising ways.

La Mer

Autor: John Banville

Número de Páginas: 190

Le chef-d'œuvre de John Banville, couronné du prestigieux Prix Booker en 2005. Peu de temps après la mort de sa femme, Max revient dans la petite station balnéaire où, enfant, il a passé l'été qui a façonné sa vie. Ce séjour à Ballymoins, c'est une retraite contre la colère et la douleur causées par la perte d'Anna. Mais c'est aussi un retour sur les lieux où, cinquante ans plus tôt, Max a rencontré les Grace. Cette riche famille bourgeoise avait loué la villa des Cèdres, qui subjuguait le garçon pauvre qu'il était alors. Auprès d'elle, il expérimenta, pour la première fois, l'étrange proximité de l'amour et de la mort... Magistralement composé et écrit, La Mer est un roman d'une beauté envoûtante, mélancolique et sensuelle, sur l'amour, la perte et le pouvoir de la mémoire. " Si la mer sied si bien à l'un des sommets de Debussy – à une belle chanson de Trenet, aussi –, elle sera désormais associée à un roman inoubliable. " L'Express

Booker Prize Novels, 1969-2005

Autor: Merritt Moseley

Número de Páginas: 504

The Booker Prize, renamed in 2002 to the Man Booker Prize, is the most prestigious literary award given in the United Kingdom and one of the two or three most esteemed such awards in the world and confers literary recognition on novels that reflect and portray the state of culture. Discusses the impact the Booker Prize had on the world of books, the history of the Booker Prize, the rules and judging, and the various controversies that arose over awarding this prize.

John Banville

Autor: Neil Murphy

Número de Páginas: 237

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, as well as the ‘Quirke’ crime novels he has written under the pseudonym, Benjamin Black and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. From the beginning, Banville’s work has been marked both by the presence of a complex, embedded discourse about the significance of art and by a concurrent self-conscious obsession with its own status as art. His novels perpetually reveal an overt fascination with the visual arts, in particular, and with the aesthetic principle of literature as art. This study argues that, as a whole, Banville’s work presents an elaborate and richly-textured coded account of his relationship with art and with the self-referential fictional world that his novels have conjured. It is from this critical context that John Banville’s central argument is derived. This book asserts that Banville’s fiction can be viewed both as an extended interrogation into the meaning and status of art as well as itself being a representative of the type of art that is admired in the pages of the novels. As such, it also represents an extremely sophisticated enactment of the novel form ...

John Banville

Número de Páginas: 0

Impostures

Autor: John Banville

Número de Páginas: 303

Une lettre, et tout bascule. Vous pouviez être un éminent professeur qui mène la belle vie en Californie, puis soudainement partir pour Turin tuer la femme qui dit avoir découvert votre plus grand secret. Car cette vie, vous ne la méritez pas, Alex Vander ne la mérite pas : depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il usurpe l'identité de son ami mystérieusement disparu. Et la chercheuse Cass Cleave, obsédée par le travail de Vander, pourrait bien tout révéler. La rencontre entre Vander et Cleave sera décisive : commettra-t-il l'irréparable pour empêcher la vérité d'éclater ou trouvera-t-il enfin la rédemption dans l'amour qu'elle lui porte ? " Hypnotique. Avec Impostures, Banville nous démontre que les termes "art' et "chef-d'œuvre' gardent toute leur pertinence. " The New York Times

Universidad de México

Número de Páginas: 356