John Banville
The Singularities

2023 |

From the Booker Prize-winning John Banville comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: th…e Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request. With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit, John Banville revisits some of his career's most memorable figures, in a novel as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived. From the Booker Prize-winning John Banville comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also bor…rowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request. With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit, John Banville revisits some of his career's most memorable figures, in a novel as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived.

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O knize

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Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	307
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1800753365
ISBN:	9781800753365
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	23. 2. 2025 23:30
Číslo položky:	1151005

O autorovi

John Banville

William John Banville je irský spisovatel, dramatik a scenárista. K jeho nejslavnějším románům patří The Book of Evidence z roku 1989 a Sea z roku 2005. Svá díla píše anglicky, do irštiny nebyla ani přeložena. Od roku 2006 píše pod pseudonymem Benjamin Black sérii detektivních příběhů z Dublinu. Roku 2005 získal prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu za román The Sea . Nominován byl již roku 1989 za The Book of Evidence . Roku 2011 získal v Praze Cenu Franze Kafky, o které prohlásil, že je jednou z mála, kterou přijímá rád. Je ovšem nositelem řady dalších literárních cen . Jeho styl je často přirovnáván k Proustovi a Nabokovovi. Sám se hlásí zejména k odkazu Heinricha von Kleista, jehož tři knihy adaptoval pro divadelní scénu. Často se též diskutuje o jeho návaznosti na linii irské literatury, již tvoří James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, ale i Henry James. Někdy je řazen k postmoderní literatuře. Živí se jako novinář, dlouhá léta pracoval v deníku The Irish Press, po jeho zániku přešel do The Irish Times. S českým prostředím je spojen tím, že roku 2003 napsal knihu věnovanou Praze nazvanou Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City. Je to jediná nebeletristická kniha, kterou dosud napsal. Rozhovory

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