Review of 'Venetian Vespers' by John Banville: A Dark Tale of Decline in Venice
In John Banville’s 'Venetian Vespers', the protagonist Evelyn Dolman, a hack writer, experiences a chilling downfall during his honeymoon in Venice. The novel, set in 1900, follows Evelyn and his new wife, Laura Rensselaer, as they arrive in the city of canals after the death of Laura’s father. Stay... [More info]
The writer #JohnBanville observed, "Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don't think we remember the past, we imagine it." I have vivid memories of my early childhood (I believe they're memories, not imagination). 🤔
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https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/nonfiction/biography-memoir/memories-and-imagination
"Troubling Late #Modernism" by Doug Battersby analyses how #postwarnovel|s by #Nabokov, #SamuelBeckett, #ToniMorrison, #JohnBanville, #Coetzee & #EimearMcBride exploit & extend #modernist forms of narration, esp. at the opposition of #ethics & emotion
The writer #JohnBanville observed, "Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don't think we remember the past, we imagine it." ~ #Memories and #Imagination 🤔 #writers #writing #memoir
Link to memoir post on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/nonfiction/biography-memoir/memories-and-imagination
“Oh, tiempo, Oh “tempora”, ¿en qué sitios hemos estado… Y dónde me llevarás todavía?”
#JohnBanville en este libro magnífico, unas conmovedoras y reveladoras memorias del gran escritor irlandés y una guía de viaje muy especial por la ciudad de Dublin.
Eclipse
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/12/13/eclipse/
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Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Eclipse [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by John Banville This John Banville novel shares a time-frame and characters with his book Shroud. I read Shroud first (about ten years ago), although Eclipse was the first of the two to be published. They have a single development in common for their respective endings, so that no […]
Tall And True Short Reads, Ep 64/100: The writer #JohnBanville observed, “Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it.” 🤔 #storytelling #podcasts #acast #applepodcasts #spotify #youtube
Link to episode on podcast website: https://www.tallandtrueshortreads.com/memories-and-imagination/
Qué pequeño recipiente de tristeza somos, navegando en este apagado silencio a través de la oscuridad del otoño.
"El mar" (2005) - John Banville
Ö1 – Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2024 um 16:05 Uhr (gekürzt)
John Banville ist einer der bedeutenden Autoren der europäischen Gegenwartsliteratur.
Banvilles Prosa ist von melancholischer Farbigkeit und hat die suggestive Kraft eines Traums. Seine Romane inszeniert der irische Schriftsteller als diabolisches Spiel, in dem sich ein wiederkehrendes Figurenensemble hinter immer neuen Masken verbirgt. In seinem jüngsten Roman „Singularitäten“ kehrt Banville an die Schauplätze früherer Romane zurück und erzählt von einem aus dem Gefängnis entlassenen Mörder, der sich in einer Welt wiederfindet, die aus den Fugen geraten zu sein scheint. Thomas David hat John Banville, der 1945 im irischen Wexford geboren wurde, wiederholt in Dublin besucht. Sein Feature zeichnet ein vielschichtiges Porträt des Schriftstellers …
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“¿Cuándo se convierte el pasado en pasado? ¿Cuánto tiempo tiene que pasar para que algo que ocurrió sin más empiece a emitir el brillo secreto y numinoso que es la marca del verdadero pasado?”
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