Ghosts.
| Publisher | Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Publication | The Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0276-0045 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | v14 |
| Issue | n2 |
| Published | 1994-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | John Banville |
| Author | n/a | Brian Evenson |
| Related Content | Type |
| Ghosts | eNotes |
| Ghosts | eText |
| Ghosts | Salem on Literature |
At his best, Irish novelist John Banville employs an incisive prose that is at once crystalline and obscure. He cares less for plot and character than for language itself --but in giving himself to language, he cannot help but creat eccentric and intriguing characters and to construct a convincing world. His latest novel, Ghosts, offers his finest strengths. Here, Banville is less concerned about telling a story than he is in his earlier novels. He allows the story to form according to the language itself, until story and language seem inextricably bound in an eerie harmony.
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