Isola con fantasmi

Everything in this world resembles something else so Ghosts vaguely echoes The Tempest by William Shakespeare. And the island is something between Aeaea – Circe’s home isle, and the Land of Nod – the place of Cain’s exile. Extraordinary the look of things at dusk then, it might have been another Leggi tutto

Some people are ghosts, even when they are alive. This is what makes this a horror story; people. When it is the usual stream of consciousness fare that it is. Who writes more beautiful prose than Banville? Absolutely no one. This isn't actually a ghost story, of course. But if you love rare words an Leggi tutto

Be forewarned, dear reader. This book presents itself as a narrative of depth and intrigue, promising tales of shipwrecks, ex-prisoners, and erudite professors. However, do not be deceived by its facade. This is nothing more than a haphazard collection of disjointed musings and half-baked ghosts of

CRITIQUE: The Return of a Questionable Narrator "Ghosts" is a worthy sequel to "The Book of Evidence". John Banville evidently decided that he hadn't finished with the character, Freddie Montgomery, and the intrigues that might surround him in the parallel worlds in which he lived. Indeed, Banville

A very, very strange book. It’s obvious that the protagonist knows more than he is telling and he well could be just out and out, lying. None of the character are particularly likable, and they all have a past they would rather not talk about or have known. Frankly I couldn’t make heads or tails of Leggi tutto

Confusingly, This guy gets a lot of grief on here for being pretentious. But, to me it is an authentic pretentiousness, like art is. Very unlike David Foster Wallace who tries to sound cooler than you or Michael Chabon who tries to sound smarter (and who prolly are.).