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The Blue Guitar de John Banville

The Blue Guitar

Autor John Banville
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2016
From John Banville, one of the world's greatest writers, comesThe Blue Guitar, a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship.

Adultery is always put in terms of thieving.But we were happy together, simply happy.

Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year, from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him, and by the end of his story, he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption.

Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2016
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241970010
ISBN-10: 0241970016
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen previous novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.

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This engrossing and often beautiful novel is a true work of art that rewards careful reading
Banville is a gorgeous writer who can nail an emotion
He shows himself, once again,as one of contemporary literature's finest and most expert witnesses... compelling and matchless prose
The book is cherishable as a meditation on life's transience, the mysteries and fleetingness of love, the waning of sexual desire, and the lost domain of childhood
An elegant novel of tangled infidelity
A brilliant study of memory, regret and inescapable alienation in relationships (...) a portrait of human frailty, it is surprisingly uplifting
Banville's prose sparkles as Orme ponders the nature of art, his life, happiness, memory and love
Banville is an expert in masculine interiority... achieving this by a luminous prose style
Banville, the Nabokov of contemporary literature,can turn even a straightforward comeuppance tale intobreath-taking literary art
Banville is one of the writers I admire the most - few people can create an image as beautifully or precisely
Deliciously off-beat, gorgeous prose
This is a book to be enjoyed for the grand mastery of its description and forthe way it nails the challenges we face in attempting to understand the world, others and ourselves from the limits of our own perspective
The Blue Guitaris arguably the funniest and most accessible of Banville's many novels . . . beautiful, heartbreaking
Eloquent . . . Oliver has some of the wry comic haplessness of a Beckett character
The cumulative effect of [The Blue Guitar] -the opening ludic exuberance, the subsequent steady softening, the sheer force of Banville's reflections on grief and loss-is moving, entertaining, edifying and affirmative.The Blue Guitaris a remarkable achievement: the work of a writer who knows not only about pain and eloquence, but about the consolations of learning how to think, to look and to listen
Banville's descriptive gifts are undiminished as Oliver finally stumbles towards an understanding of love
Elegant and affecting
Self-depreciating and funny. . . Banville, with this narrator who is messily making it up as he goes along, who is writing a dodgy first draft in front of our eyes, seems at once to be having fun and to be utterly serious. Serious about the demolition work at the heart of this novel, a taking-down of the business of writing a novel, all those strivings, strainings, fakings and foreshortenings-and all the ridiculousness of alliteration-for-effect, with a rake of unlikely character and place names which seem right out of a sinister sort of nursery rhyme-all the artifice that the reader pretends not to see as such, all of the impulses and indulgences (stop alliterating!) with which the writer expects to get away.