John Banville the booker prize-winning novelist wanders Ireland’s capital city recalling people and places that still live in his memory. In this subtle memoir, Irish novelist “Banville” explores three overlapping Dublins, the contemporary city, city of history and the city he remembers.
Despite spending centuries as a provincial backwater in the british Empire, “Dublin” produced a pantheon of great artists, among them Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, Jonathan Swift, Orson Welles who made his stage debut in Dublin’s Gate Theatre.
”Dublin Memoir” by John Banville
Banville viewed “Dublin” as the locus of all sophistication excitement and meaning in 1964 at age 18, moved there and found his place in the “bohemian” milieu he’d admired from afar. Every shift in perspective triggers meditations on the myriad ways the city has shaped his long life.
The real unity of the narrative rests in the remarkable interplay between text and image. Banville describes it as dimly lit and pleasingly louche today as it was then. A mysterious friend named “Cicero” accompanies Banville.
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