Le monde d'or

" Un roman audacieux, funambulesque, où Banville pirouette entre ciel et terre. " L'ExpressAdam 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.

Infinis

Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in Ireland, 1982, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive and utterly unprecedented killer.'Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls' - Don DeLillo, author of White Noise and LibraFreddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master - an unattributed painting of a middle-aged woman - from a wealthy family friend. And he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act, bludgeoning her to death with a hammer. An eccentric narcissist, he has little to say about the woman he killed. He travels through life without any apparent remorse. He killed her, he says, because he was physically capable of it. It made sense to him. However, as he narrates his testimony, there is one thing he cannot understand. One thing he would desperately like to know. Why did he want to steal the painting?With extra material for the 25th anniversary, including an introduction by Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize'Remarkable' - Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford novelsThe Book of Evidence is the first in John Banville's acclaimed Frames Trilogy. It is followed by Ghosts and Athena.

The Book of Evidence - Picador Classic

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.

Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader

Le Livre des aveux est la confession d'un homme inculpé et incarcéré pour l'enlèvement et le meurtre horrible, apparemment sans mobile, d'une jeune femme. Tout au long d'un fascinant monologue, l'assassin - Frederick St John Vanderveld Montgomery, aristocrate désargenté - tente de justifier face à ses juges le crime qui a détruit sa vie... Mais derrière les raisons invoquées, derrière l'apparente et imperturbable logique policière, c'est l'exploration minutieuse et glacée d'une conscience coupable qui donne à ce livre son inquiétante résonance.

Le Livre des aveux

Doctor Copernicus

'Shroud will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do' Irish TimesDark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the second of John Banville's three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside Eclipse and Ancient Light. Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets - and carefully concealed identity - Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.

Shroud

'Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge' Observer Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler, by John Banville, brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe while being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world; rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors.

Kepler

" Nous sommes en Irlande, tu sais, pas en Californie ", se fait dire, sur le ton du reproche, un personnage d'Evelyn Conlon, qui soigne son naufrage conjugal dans de multiples aventures. Comment l'Irlande concilie-t-elle traditions catholiques et ouverture européenne ? Comment les femmes et les hommes y vivent-ils la culture contemporaine venue d'outre-mer ? Est-il seulement possible d'écrire après ces géants qu'ont été Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, Behan et Beckett ? Si elles n'appellent pas des réponses définitives, ces questions habitent Nouvelles d'Irlande. Et force est de constater que la nouvelle et l'humour se portent bien en Irlande.

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