John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of
several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his
novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and
although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for it, his
passion for painting continues to influence and inform his work.
Banville conceives the novel as a work of art aimed not at the
present, but for the ages. He aspires to create narratives that
offer readers a sense of what it is to be conscious, human, and
feeling, and aims to convey his conviction that "the familiar is
always unfamiliar, the ordinary extraordinary."Conversations with
John Banville is the first interview collection with this esteemed
writer and includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five
decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel
Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces. The collection also includes
discussions about - and with, in the case of James Gleick's 2014
interview - Banville's alter ego, Benjamin Black, who writes crime
novels. Highly engaging and insightful, Banville's interviews offer
a variety of writerly autobiography regarding what he has aimed to
do in his work and how he continues to pursue perfection, which he
has known from the beginning must be impossible.
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