John Banville
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The writer Houellebecq most resembles, however, is Simenon – not the Maigret Simenon, but the Simeon of the romans durs, as he called them, such as Dirty Snow or Monsieur Monde Vanishes, masterpieces of tight-lipped existential desperation."--"The poor old horse" (2004) by John Banville, The Dublin Review |
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John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence (1989), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation Award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005.
Banville is known for his precise—some would say cold—prose style, Nabokovian in inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators. Banville's stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has".
