Word upon World: Half a century of John Banville's Universes

Nicholas Taylor-Collins ,Laura P. Z. Izarra ,Hedwig Schwall

doi:10.37389/abei.v22i1

Abstract

A special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies celebrating fifty years since John Banville's first book publication, 'Long Lankin', and investigating his subsequent writing. Available open access at http://revistas.fflch.usp.br/abei

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This Special Issue of ABEI Journal, “Word Upon World: Half a Century of John Banville’s Universes”, celebrates a writer’s life devoted to translating worlds into words
Among the innumerable critical reviews and academic books that extol his fictions, as well as the various awards he received – including the 2005 Man Booker Prize for The Sea, the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2013) and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014) – John Banville has been recognized in his artistic creations by many academics in conferences and workshops all over the world, in at least fourteen monographs and in countless articles, as well as in two special issues of the Irish University Review (Spring 1981 and Spring 2006) and in a world-wide EFACIS translation Project
An elemental, urge which springs, like the dream, from a desperate imperative to encode and preserve things that are buried in us deep beyond words” (“Fiction and the Dream” 28).[1]. He has carved universes in an endless interior journey to get in touch with the inner self, either as the author John Banville or his “dark twin” Benjamin Black – “This is the significance of fiction, its danger and its glory”

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This Special Issue of ABEI Journal, “Word Upon World: Half a Century of John Banville’s Universes”, celebrates a writer’s life devoted to translating worlds into words.

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