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Shroud John Banville One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel

Shroud John Banville One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel . One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from its conflagrations, with the wounds to prove it. And everything about him is a lie.

Shroud is a 2002 novel by John Banville. It is the middle component of the Alexander and Cass Cleave Trilogy, which also contains the novels Eclipse, published in 2000, and Ancient Light, published in 2012. Axel Vander, famous man of letters and recently widowed, travels to Turin to meet a young woman called Cass Cleave.

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work

One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. And everything about him is a li. ow those lies have been unraveled by a mysterious young woman whom Vander calls "Miss Nemesis.

It is a work of uncommon power.

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Axel Vander is an old man, in ill health, recently widowed, a scholar renowned for both his unquestionable authority and the ferocity and violence that often mark his conduct. He is known to be Belgian by birth.

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus, Kepler, The Newton Letter, Mefisto, The Book of Evidence (which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize), Ghosts, Athena, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Библиографические данные. Shroud Vintage International. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

Shroud by John Banville 408pp, Picador, £1. 9. It sometimes seems as if there are more ghosts in John Banville's novels than there are living creatures

Shroud by John Banville 408pp, Picador, £1. It sometimes seems as if there are more ghosts in John Banville's novels than there are living creatures. In Shroud, which can be read as a companion piece to his last novel, Eclipse, another strong cast of spectral presences - a passer-by mown down by a lorry, a hotel porter mopping a floor, a child disappearing suddenly from a midnight corridor - is headed by two more specific representatives of the dead

John Banville Shroud We set up a word at the point at which our ignorance begins, at which we can see no further, . the word "I," the word "do," the word "suffer": - these are perhaps the horizon of our knowledge, but not"truths.

John Banville Shroud We set up a word at the point at which our ignorance begins, at which we can see no further, . ONE Who speaks? It is her voice, in my head. I fear it will not stop until I stop. It talks to me as I haul myself along these cobbled streets, telling me things I do not want to hear. We set up a word at the point at which our ignorance begins, at which we can see no further, .

John Banville A splendidly moving exploration of identity, duplicity, and desire, Shroud is. .The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish author John Banville.

A splendidly moving exploration of identity, duplicity, and desire, Shroud is Banville's most rapturous performance to date. Alex Vander is a fraud, big-time.