As well as his novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction, Banville has published book reviews and other articles, and written introductions for the neglected short stories of women such as Elizabeth Bowen and Edna O'Brien. A partial bibliography may be found here;[2] it is particularly helpful for locating the original publisher of Banville's books and it also verifies the year of publication of each. However, discrepancies remain between that bibliography and this one on the drama adaptations and original screenplays — for example, that bibliography calls the 1994 screenplay "Seachange", while the IMDb calls a screenplay from the same year by the title "Seascape". The above bibliography does not include Banville's book reviews, nor does it include his articles for various newspapers and magazine publications. A sample of these may be found below.
This elicited an exchange with McEwan defender John Sutherland, which appeared in 52 (11), and featured Banville's immortal line: "Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the Department of Trivia".
George Craig; Martha Dow Fehsenfeld; Dan Gunn; Lois More Overbeck (eds.). The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume II: 1941–1956. Cambridge University Press.
Seachange. Unpublished (performed 1994 in the Focus Theatre, Dublin)
Dublin 1742. Unpublished (performed 2002 in The Ark, Dublin; a play for those between the ages of nine and fourteen)
God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2000
Love in the Wars. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2005 (adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea)
Todtnauberg. Radio play aired by the BBC in January 2006; later reissued as Conversation in the Mountains in 2008.[4] about the conversations between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger (and his relationship with Hannah Arendt) at Todtnauberg in the Black Forest in Germany.
"In his introduction to this new collected edition of her stories, John Banville argues that Elizabeth Bowen, best remembered for her novels such as The Last September, was 'the supreme genius of her time' in the short form".[9]
A book released to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, featuring contributions from various writers[12]
Notes
↑ The Gallery Press published only 260 copies of this book for children, with illustrations by Conor Fallon, in support of The Ark Cultural Centre for Children. As a result, used copies of The Ark can retail online at great expense; for example Number 52, signed by Banville and Fallon, became available for £500.[note 2]
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References
↑ "John Banville." Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN0-313-29172-1.
↑ Stark, Richard (15 April 2009). The Score (Parker): Stark, Richard, Banville, John: 9780226771045: Amazon.com: Books. University of Chicago Press. ISBN978-0-226-77104-5.
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