Bibliography

This is an initial fledgling bibliography of work by and about Banville which is not yet comprehensive. Given the continued critical fascination with Banville’s work and the depth of engagement it has already generated the bibliography will inevitably be a continuous work-in progress, to which we invite all who are interested in Banville to contribute. Information about translations of Banville’s work and critical engagement in languages other than English are welcome. You can send additions, updates, and suggestions to the following email address: efaciscoord@gmail.com

We hope to make this an important resource for all scholars and students of Banville and we welcome all contributions.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Works

As John Banville

Mrs. Osmond. London: Penguin, 2017.

Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir. Dublin: Hachette Books, 2016.

The Blue Guitar. London: Viking Penguin, 2015.

Ancient Light. London: Viking Penguin, 2012.

The Infinities. London: Picador, 2009.

The Sea. London: Picador, 2005.

Prague Pictures. London: Bloomsbury, 2003.

Shroud. London: Picador, 2002.

Eclipse. London: Picador, 2000.

The Untouchable. London: Picador, 1997.

Athena. London: Secker & Warburg, 1995.

Ghosts. London: Secker & Warburg, 1993.

The Book of Evidence. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989.

Mefisto. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986.

The Newton Letter: An Interlude. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982.

Kepler. London: Secker & Warburg, 1981.

Doctor Copernicus. London: Secker & Warburg, 1976.

Birchwood. London: London: Secker & Warburg, 1973.

Nightspawn. London: Secker & Warburg, 1971.

Long Lankin. London: Secker & Warburg, 1970.

 

As Benjamin Black
Prague Nights. London: Penguin, 2017.

Even The Dead. London: Penguin, 2016.
The Black-Eyed Blonde. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.

Holy Orders. New York: Henry Holt, 2013.

Vengeance. London: Mantle, 2012.

Elegy for April. London: Picador, 2011.

A Death in Summer. London: Mantle, 2011.

The Lemur. London: Picador, 2008.

The Silver Swan. London: Picador, 2007.

Christine Falls. London: Picador, 2006.

 

Drama and Screenplays

Love in the Wars: After Kleist's Penthesilea. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2005.

God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2000.

The Last September. Screenplay adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Bowen. Dir. Deborah Warner. Trimark Pictures, 1999.

Seachange. Television screenplay. Dublin: RTE, 1994.

The Broken Jug: After Heinrich von Kleist. Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1994.

Reflections. Screenplay adapted from The Newton Letter. Dir. Kevin Billington. Court House Films / Channel Four, UK 1983. 90 min.

 

Interviews, Reviews, and Selected Essays

John Banville. “Quirke comes from the damaged recesses of my Irish soul.” By Hannah Ellis-Petersen. The Guardian, 23 May 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/23/john-banville-quirke-benja... (accessed July 14, 2016).

“The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Conversation with John Banville.” By Christopher Cox. Harper’s Magazine, March 26, 2014 (accessed July 14, 2017).

“I Hate Genre: An Interview with John Banville/Benjamin Black.” By Jon Wiener. LA Review of Books, March 15, 2014. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hate-genre-interview-john-banvillebe... (accessed June 14, 2016).

“A True Picture of Picasso.” Irish Times, January 4, 2014.

“The Movies and me.” Irish Times, June 8, 2013. http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/john-banville-the-movies

-and-me-1.1419028/  (accessed June 16, 2016).

“Interview with a Writer: John Banville.” By J.P. O’Malley. The Spectator, March 29, 2013.

John Banville. “‘I'm at Last Beginning to Learn How to Write, and I Can Let the Writing Mind Dream.’” Interview with Arminta Wallace. The Irish Times, June 30, 2012.

“John Banville: A Life in Writing.” With Stuart Jeffries. The Guardian, June 29, 2012.

“Fully Booked: Q & A with John Banville.” Interview by Travis Elborough. Picador, June 29, 2012.

 “John Banville Interviewed.” Interview by Kevin Breathnach. Totally Dublin. http://totallydublin.ie/arts-culture/arts-culture-features/john-banville... (accessed July 21, 2016).

“An Interview with John Banville.” Interview by Hugh Haughton and Bryan Radley. Modernism/Modernity 18, no. 4 (November 2011): 855-869.

“The Millions Interview: John Banville.” Interview with Anne K. Yoder. The Millions, February 24, 2010.

“15 Questions with John Banville.” Interview by Michelle B. Timmerman. The Harvard Crimson, February 26, 2010.

“John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200.” Interview by Belinda McKeon. The Paris Review 188, no. 1 (Spring 2009).

“Guest Profile: Benjamin Black Parts 1-4.” Interview with Jim Ruland. The Elegant Variation: A Literary Weblog, December 8, 2008.

“Personally Speaking I Blame Agatha for Turning Me to Crime.” Sunday Telegraph, 11 February 2007.

“John Banville and Derek Hand in Conversation.” Friberg, Hedda. Irish University Review 36, no. 1 (2006): 200-15.

“The Long-Awaited, Long-Promised, just Plain Long John Banville Interview – Part Two.” Interview by Mark Sarvas. The Elegant Variation Blog, September 19, 2005.

John Banville, “James Joyce's Dublin.” Irish Arts Review 21, no. 2 (Summer, 2004): 84-89.

“Interviewing John Banville.” Interview by Laura P.Z. Izarra. Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland, edited by Murina H. Mutran & Laura P.Z. Izarra (Sao Paulo: Humanitas, 2003), 226-247.

Oblique Dreamer: Interview with John Banville.” Interview by the Observer. Observer, 17 September 2000: 15.

“Beauty, Charm, and Strangeness: Science as Metaphor.” Science, New Series 281, no. 5373 (July 3, 1998): 40-41.

“An Interview with John Banville.” Interview by Hedwig Schwall. European English Messenger 6, no. 1 (1997): 13-19.

 “The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett.” Review of Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, by James Knowlson, and Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, by Anthony Cronin. The New York Review of Books, (November 14, 1996): 29.

“The Personae of Summer.” In Irish Writers and Their Creative Processes. Edited by Jacqueline Genet and Wynne Hellegouarc’h. (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd, 1996): 118-22.

Master of Paradox: Interview with John Banville.” Interview by Helen Meany. The Irish Times, March 24, 1993.

 “Samuel Beckett dies in Paris aged 83.” Irish Times, December 25, 1989, 19.

“Survivors of Joyce.” In James Joyce: The Artist and the Labyrinth. Edited by Augustine Martin (London: Ryan Publishing, 1990), 73-81.

 “The Helpless Laughter of a Tragedian.” Irish Times, December 3, 1988: W.9.

“Physics and Fictions: Order from Chaos.” The New York Times Book Review, 21 April, 1985: 41-2.

“My Readers, That Small Band, Deserve a Rest.” Interview by Rüdiger Imhof. In Irish University Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1981): 5-12.

John Banville. “A Talk.” Irish University Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1981): 13-17.

 “Novelists on the Novel: Ronan Sheehan talks to John Banville and Francis Stuart.” Interview with Ronan Sheehan. The Crane Bag 3, no. 1 (1979): 76-84.

 

Books on John Banville

Berensmeyer, Ingo.  John  Banville:  Fictions  of Order:  Authority,   Authorship,   

Authenticity.  Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Wmter, 2000.

D’Hoker, Elke. Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2004.

Friberg-Harnesk, Hedda. Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard. Amherst: Cambria Press, 2018.

Hand, Derek. John Banville: Exploring Fictions. Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2002.

Imhof, Rüdiger. John Banville: A Critical Introduction. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1989 [Revised Edition 1997].

Ingersoll, Earl and John Cusatis, eds. Conversations with John Banville. Literary Conversations Series, ed. Monika Gehlawat. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

Izarra, Laura. Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths. The Process of a New Aesthetic Synthesis in John Banville's Work. Bethesda, MD: International Scholars Publications, 1998.

Kenny, John. John Banville. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

McMinn, Joseph. John Banville: A Critical Study. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 1991.

McMinn, Joseph. The Supreme Fictions of John Banville. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

Murphy, Neil. John Banville (Contemporary Irish Writers Series). Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2018.

O’Connell, Mark. John Banville’s Narcissistic Fictions. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

O'Neill, Patrick. "John Banville." Contemporary Irish Novelists. Ed. Rüdiger Imhof. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990. 207-23.

Palazzolo, Pietra, Michael Springer, and Stephen Butler, eds. John Banville's Precursors. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

Smith, Eoghan. John Banville: Art and Authenticity. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014.

 

Journal Special Issues

ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies. Special Issue on John Banville, ed. Laura Izarra, Nicholas Taylor-Collins, and Hedwig Schwall (2020-1).

Irish University Review: A Jounral of Irish Studies. John Banville Special Issue, Edited by Rüdiger Imhof (Spring 1981).

Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies. 36, no. 1  Special Issue John Banville, Edited by Derek Hand (Summer 2006).

 

Other Works

Acocella, Joan. “Doubling Down: John Banville’s Complicated Lives.” The New Yorker, October 8, 2012. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/08/doubling-down.

Boyle, Kevin. “Benjamin Black and John Banville: The Legitimacy of the Irish Literary Persona.” New Voices in Irish criticism: Legitimate Ireland. The Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, 19 April 2012.

Canon-Roger, Françoise. “John Banville’s Imagines in The Book of Evidence.” European Journal of English Studies 4, no. 1 (2000): 25-38.

Connolly, John. “Joining the Criminal Fraternity.” Irish Times, September 30, 2006.

Coughlan, Patricia. “Banville, the Feminine, and the Scenes of Eros.” Irish University Review 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2006): 81-101.

Deane, Seamus.  “‘Be Assured  I Am Inventing’:  The Fiction of  John Banville”. The Irish Novel in Our Time. Eds. Patrick  Rafroidi  and Maurice Harmon. Villeneuve

d’Ascq PUL (Publications de 1'Universite de Lille III), 1975/6: 329-39.

D’hoker, Elke. "'Everything has to be qualified': Reading as Misreading in John Banville and Paul de Man." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59.5 (2018): 536-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2018.1427546

Dell’Amico, Carol. “John Banville and Benjamin Black: The Mundo, Crime, Women.” Éire-Ireland 49, no. 1 & 2, (Spring-Summer 2014): 106-120.

D'Hoker, Elke. “Portrait of the Other as a Woman with Gloves: Ethical Perspectives in John Banville’s The Book of Evidence.” Critique 44, no.1 (Fall 2002): 23-37.

Donnelly, Brian. “The Big House in the Recent Irish Novel.” Studies 254 (Summer 1975): 134.

Duffy, Brian. "Banville’s Other Ghost: Samuel Beckett’s Presence in John Banville’s Eclipse." Études Irlandaises 28.1 (2003): 85-106.

Facchinello, Monica. “‘The Old Illusion of Belonging’: Distinctive Style, Bad Faith and John Banville’s The Sea.” Estudios Irlandeses, no. 5 (2010): 33-44.

Fattori, Anna. “‘A Genuinely Funny German Farce’ Turns into a Very Irish Play: The Broken Jug (1994): John Banville's Adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug (1807).” In Vol. 4 of Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers/Jahrbuch für Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehunge, Edited by Rudiger Gorner, November, 2011: 75-94.

Frehner, Ruth. “The Dark One and the Fair: John Banville’s Historians of the Imagination and their Gender Stereotypes.” In ELJLS: Barcelona English Language and Literature Series, 2000111, edited by Mireia Aragay and Jaquelme A. Hurtley. Barcelona: PPU, 2000: 51-64.

Friberg-Harnesk, Hedda. “In the Sign of the Counterfeit: John Banville's God's Gift.” Nordic Irish Studies 9 (2010): 71-88.

Friberg, Hedda. “‘In the Murky Sea of Memory’: Memory Miscues in John Banville’s The Sea.” An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, and the Arts 1, no. 2 (2005): 111-123.

Friberg, Hedda. “Waters and Memories Always Divide: Sites of Memory in John Banville’s The Sea.” In Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present, edited by Hedda Friberg, Irene Gilsenan.

Gefter Wondrich, Roberta.  “A Great, Sinister Performer: John Banville, The Untouchable,”  The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 23.2 (Dec. 1997): 123-129.

Gefter Wondrich, Roberta.  “The Familiar Otherwhere of Art: Awareness, Creation, Redemption. Art and the Artistic Imagination in John Banville’s Trilogy of Art,” Prospero: Rivasta di culture anglo-germaniche IV (1997): 94-109.

Ghassemi, Mehdi. “Femininity, Ekphrasis, and Aesthetic Selfhood in John Banville’s Eclipse, Shroud, and Ancient Light,” in Estudios Irlandeses 13.2, 2018: 30-43.

Ghassemi, Mehdi. “John Banville’s (Post)modern Reinvention of the Gothic Tale: Boundary, Extimacy, and Disparity,” in The Irish Journal of Horror and Gohtic Studies, 17 (August 2018): 38-50.

Hugh Haughton. “The Ruinous House of Identity: The fictions of John Banville.” The Dublin Review, no. 1 (Winter 2000-1): 107-115.

Imhof, Rüdiger. “John Banville’s Athena: A Love Letter to Art.” Asylum Arts Review 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1995b): 27-34.

Imhof, Rüdiger. “The Problematics of Authenticity”: John Banville’s Shroud.” ABEI Journal - The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, no. 6 (June 2004): 105-128.

Imhof, Rüdiger. “The Sea: ‘Was’t well done?’” Irish University Review 36, no. 1 (2006): 165–81.

Imhof, Rüdiger.  “John Banville’s Supreme Fiction,” Irish University Review 11.1 (Spring 1981): 52-86.

Imhof, Rüdiger.  “My Readers, That Small Band, Deserve a Rest,” Irish University Review 11.1 (Spring 1981): 5-12.

Imhof, Rüdiger.  “Post-Joycean Experiment in Recent Irish Fiction,” Ireland and France – A bountiful friendship: Literature, History and Ideas. Eds. Barbara Hayley & Christopher Murray. Colin Smythe Ltd: Buckinghamshire, 1992:124-136.

Imhof, Rüdiger.  “Proust and Contemporary Irish Fiction,” The Internationalism Of Irish Literature and Drama: Irish Literary Studies 41. Ed. Joseph McMinn (assisted by Anne McMaster and Angela Welch). Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe Ltd., 1992: 255-60.

Imhof, Rüdiger.  “Swan’s way, or Goethe, Einstein, Banville-The Eternal Recurrence.” Etudes Irlandaises 12, Dec. 1987: 113-129.

Imhof, Rüdiger.  “The Newton Letter, by John Banville: An Exercise in Literary Derivation,” Irish University Review 13.2 (Autumn 1983): 162-67.

Jackson, Tony E. “Science, Art, and the Shipwreck of Knowledge: The Novels of John Banville.” Contemporary Literature 38, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 510-533.

Kavenna. “Pseudonymously Yours: The strange case of Benjamin Black.” The New Yorker, July 11 & 18, 2011.

Kincaid, Andrew. “‘Down These Mean Streets’: The City and Critique in Contemporary Irish Noir.” Éire-Ireland 45, no. 1 & 2 (Spring-Summer 2010): 39-55.

Kreilkamp, Vera. The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Lawson, Mark. “The name’s Quirke.” The Guardian, July 9, 2011. R.10.

Mannion, Elizabeth., ed. “Introduction: A Path to Emerald Noir: The Rise of the Irish Detective Novel.” In The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel, 1-15. London: Palgrave, 2016.

McKenna, John. “Rage for Order.” In Dublin (November 13, 1986): 17.

McMinn, Joseph. “An Exalted Naming: The Poetical Fictions of John Banville.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 14, no. 1 (July 1988): 17-28.

McMinn, Joseph.   “Disturbing Fascination,” Fortnight, June 1989: 23.

McMinn, Joseph.  “Naming the World: Language and Experience in John Banville’s Fiction,” Irish University Review, 23.2 (Autumn/Winter 1993): 183-96.

McMinn, Joseph.   “Reality Refuses To Fall Into Place.” Fortnight, Oct. 1986: 24.

McMinn, Joseph.  “Stereotypical Images of Ireland in John Banville’s Fiction,” Eire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, 23.3 (Fall 1988): 94-102.

McNamara, Audrey. “Quirke, the 1950s, and Leopold Bloom.” In The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel, edited by Elizabeth Mannion, 135-148. London: Palgrave, 2016.

Momoo, Mika. “Only Echoes and Coincidences: Textual Authority in John Banville's Birchwood.” Journal of Irish Studies 22 (2007): 41-47.

Müller, Anja. “‘You Have Been Framed’: The Function of Ekphrasis for the Representation of Women in John Banville’s Trilogy (The Book of Evidence, Ghosts, Athena).” Studies in the Novel 36, no.2 (Summer 2004): 185-205.

Murphy, Neil. “Crimes of Elegance: Benjamin Black’s Impersonation of John Banville.” Moving Worlds 13, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 19-32.

Murphy, Neil. “Contemporary Irish Fiction and the Indirect Gaze.” In From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath. Edited by Eugene O’Brien and Eamon Maher, 174-187. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.

Murphy, Neil. “From Long Lankin to Birchwood: The Genesis of John Banville’s Architectural Space.” Irish University Review 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2006): 9-24.

Murphy, Neil. “John Banville and Heinrich von Kleist: The Art of Confusion” The Review of Contemporary Fiction XXXIV, no. 1 (2014): 54-70.

O’Toole, Fintan. “From Chandler and the 'Playboy' to the contemporary crime wave.” Irish Times, November 21, 2009.

Pan Huiting. Aesthetic Configuration. M.A. Thesis., Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 2013.

Pedersen, Lene Yding. “Revealing/Re-veiling the Past: John Banville's Shroud.” Nordic Irish Studies 4 (2005): 137-138.

Peters, Susanne. “John Banville, The Sea.” In Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture, 6 vols. Edited by Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer and Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher, 2006-2008.

Powell, Kersti Tarien. “‘Not a son but a survivor’: Beckett … Joyce … Banville.” The Yearbook of English Studies: Irish Writing since 1950 35 (2005): 199-211.

Powell, Kersti Tarien. “Trying to Catch Long Lankin by His Arm: The Evolution of John Banville’s Long Lankin.” Irish University Review 31, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter, 2001): 386-403.

Radley, Bryan. "John Banville’s Comedy of Cruelty." Nordic Irish Studies 9 (2010): 13-31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41702647

Radley, Bryan. “‘Who if not I, then, is Amphitryon?’: Banville, Kleist, and God’s Gift." 'TFTV Presents: Amphitryon' website (2017). https://amphitryontftv.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/banville-kleist-and-gods-gift-by-bryan-radley/

Radley, Bryan. "The Comic Uncanny in John Banville’s Eclipse." Irish University Review 49.2 (2019): 322-39. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/iur.2019.0409 

Riemer, Andrew. “The Blue Guitar Review: John Banville Generates Deep Aesthetic Satisfaction.” Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, 2015.

Smith, Eoghan. “It's That Man Again.” Dublin Review of Books, no. 83 (November 2016).

Stewart, Victoria. “‘I May Have Misrecalled Everything’. John Banville’s The Untouchable.” English: Journal of the English Association 52, no. 204 (Autumn 2003): 237-251.

Van, Romain Nguyen. "'According to all the authorities': The Uncanny in John Banville’s The Sea." Études Anglaises 65.4 (2012): 480-99.

Walsh, Eibhear. “‘A Lout’s Game’: Espionage, Irishness, and Sexuality in The Untouchable.” Irish University Review 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer, 2006): 102-115.

Weretka, John. “The Guitar, the Musette and Meaning in the fêtes galantes of Watteau.” EMAJ : Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, no. 3 (2008): accessed April 23, 2016, https://emajartjournal.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/weretka.pdf

Wilkinson, Robin. "Echo and Coincidence in John Banville’s Eclipse." Irish University Review 33.2 (2003): 356-70.

Wrethed, Joakim. “‘A Momentous Nothing’: The Phenomenology of Life, Ekphrasis and Temporality in John Banville’s The Sea.” In The Crossings of Art in Ireland. Edited by Ruben Moi, Brynhildur Boyce and Charles I. Armstrong, 183-211. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2014.