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William John Banville , que escreve como John Banville e às vezes como Benjamin Black, é um escritor irlandês, romancista, adaptador de peças de teatro e guionista. Reconhecido pelo seu estilo de prosa preciso, frio, forense, com uma inventividade Nabokoviana, e pelo humor negro dos seus geralmente maliciosos narradores, Banville é considerado "um dos romancistas literariamente mais imaginativos escrevendo na língua inglesa actual." Ele tem sido descrito como o "herdeiro de Proust, via Nabokov."Banville recebeu inúmeros prémios na sua carreira. O seu romance The Book of Evidence foi indicado para o Prémio Man Booker e recebeu o prémio Guinness Peat Aviation em 1989. O seu décimo quarto romance, The Sea , ganhou o Prémio Man Booker em 2005. Em 2011, Banville foi galardoado com o Prémio Franz Kafka, e em 2013 ganhou o PEN Award irlandês e o Prémio de Estado de Literatura Europeia austríaco. Em 2014, recebeu o Prémio Príncipe de Astúrias de literatura É considerado um candidato ao Prémio Nobel da Literatura. A ambição declarada de Banville é dar à sua prosa "o tipo de densidade e a espessura que tem a poesia".De 2006 a 2014, publicou oito romances policiais como Benjamin Black, em seis dos quais aparece a personagem Quirke, um patologista irlandês que é apresentado como vivendo em Dublin. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Dezembro 1945   •   Outros nomes Benjamin Black, جان بنویل
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“When I was young, art for me was a new religion. Now I see the aims and ends of art as less grand. If I can catch the play of light on a wall, and catch it just so, that is enough for me. I don’t want to write about human behavior. Art now seems to me in many ways the absolute opposite of psychology. It’s simply saying, This is how it is. This is how it looks, how it feels. To describe things well is far more worthwhile than the kind of cheap psychologizing, or even expensive psychologizing, that the novel so often indulges in.”

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John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

“Once in the 1930s, the Inland Revenue did an investigation into Yeats's tax returns because they could not believe someone so famous could have such small sales. One should never allow oneself to be discouraged by small sales. As Pinter says, I stuck to my guns.”

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14th time lucky (2005)

“For me, a line has to sing before it does anything else. The great thrill is when a sentence that starts out being completely plain suddenly begins to sing, rising far above itself and above any expectation I might have had for it. That's what keeps me going on those dark December days when I think about how I could be living instead of writing.”

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John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

“A boy in his teens! What did I know about death? This is a problem for Irish writers — our literary forebears are enormous. They stand behind us like Easter Island statues, and we keep trying to measure up to them, leaping towards heights we can't possibly reach. I suppose that's a good thing, but it makes for a painful early life for the writer. Anyway, hunched there over my Aunt Sadie's Remington, I was starting to learn how to write. Now, fifty years later, I'm still learning.”

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John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

“Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.”

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Banville on Saturday http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2005/05/banville_on_sat.html, from The New York Review of Books (source dated 10 May 2005).

“My books must be an absolute nightmare to translate. I wouldn't do it. I had a couple of them in Japanese some years ago and my wife met a Japanese woman who said that she had read the books. And she asked her what the translations were like. This woman said they were the worst translation she had ever read in her life. She said she didn't recognise the books when she finally read them in English.”

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John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)

“Saturday is a dismayingly bad book. The numerous set pieces—brain operations, squash game, the encounters with Baxter, etc.”

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are hinged together with the subtlety of a child's Erector Set. The characters too, for all the nuzzling and cuddling and punching and manhandling in which they are made to indulge, drift in their separate spheres, together but never touching, like the dim stars of a lost galaxy. The politics of the book is banal, of the sort that is to be heard at any middle-class Saturday-night dinner party, before the talk moves on to property prices and recipes for fish stew. There are good things here, for instance the scene when Perowne visits his senile mother in an old-folks' home, in which the writing is genuinely affecting in its simplicity and empathetic force. Overall, however, Saturday has the feel of a neoliberal polemic gone badly wrong; if Tony Blair — who makes a fleeting personal appearance in the book, oozing insincerity — were to appoint a committee to produce a "novel for our time," the result would surely be something like this.
Banville on Saturday http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2005/05/banville_on_sat.html, from The New York Review of Books (source dated 10 May 2005). Original source http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/may/26/a-day-in-the-life/?pagination=false.