‘Mefisto renders all superlatives woefully inadequate Undisputed master of language, the laconic pause and the blackly comic, Banville is a supreme stylist He is a magician Another expectedly astonishing and very daring display from this richly, almost wickedly, gifted artist’ — Time Out. · John Banville, from “Mefisto”. Irish novelist John Banville was born in Wexford in Ireland in He was educated at a Christian Brothers’ school and St Peter’s College in Wexford. He worked for Aer Lingus in Dublin, an opportunity that enabled him to travel widely. He was literary editor of the Irish Times between and Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · As it is in the Faust legend, so it is in Banville’s Mefisto: the devil, or an agent of the devil, comes to win a soul by corrupting its owner with delusions of grandeur. In Swan’s case, he is encouraged to pursue a vainglorious fantasy, which will reduce the manifold, the multifarious, the stubbornly concrete and individual (like people and pain) to www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
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A brilliant reworking of the classic Dr Faustus theme by Booker Prize-winning author John Banville, Mefisto focuses on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who seeks a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life. Like most Banville novels, Mefisto isn't very plot-oriented. His novels have plots, but they're so short and move so slowly that there's not really room for all that many events. And he tends to put equal emphasis on everything, whether it's a scene with a major twist or a scene that involves describing a bus ride, so even when something important happens it doesn't actually feel that way. Writers Read: Mefisto by John Banville Octo / in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche / Mary Kay Wulf This is a novel written by an author in extremis, an author both blessed and possessed.
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