John Banville : interpreting reality through fiction

• Main Author: George, Tissina
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93950; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7802
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines John Banville’s oeuvre in the context of fiction’s relation to reality. The various levels of reality – that of the author, his projected self, the scientific or artistic realities of his fiction, and the inter- and intra-textual references – variously merge or divide the “self”...