No Ordinary Writer: John Banville on Influences and Fashioning “a Singular Voice”
Franz Kafka
Henry James
James Joyce
John Banville
Literature
Paul Dirac
Samuel Beckett
T.S. Eliot
Vladimir Nabokov
W.B. Yeats
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...
