No Ordinary Writer: John Banville on Influences and Fashioning “a Singular Voice”
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Irish novelist, screenwriter, and reviewer John Banville (1945 -) is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction including the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea. Simply Charly: You’ve been described as the literary “heir to Proust, via Nabokov.” Yet, you’ve pointed to Henry James and...
