| John
Banville
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was born in Wexford, Ireland, in
1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other
books are Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which
won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (awarded
the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter, Mefisto,
The Book of Evidence (winner of the Guinness Peat Aviation Award
in 1989), Ghosts, and Athena. The Untouchable, a novel
loosely based on the life of the art historian and onetime Soviet spy,
Anthony Blunt, was published in 1996. He is literary editor of The Irish
Times.
Narodil se v roce 1945 v irském Wexfordu. Jeho první kniha Dlouhý Lankin vyšla v roce 1970. Jeho další romány jsou Zplozenci noci, Březový háj, Doctor Copernicus, který získal prestižní literární cenu James Tait Black Memorial Prize v roce 1976, román Kepler, byl oceněn cenou deníku The Guardian v roce 1981, Newtonův dopis, zfilmovaný pro britskou televizní stanici Channel 4, Mefisto, Kniha důkazů, nominovaná na Bookerovu cenu v roce 1989, Duchové a Athena. V roce 1996 byl vydán román Nedotknutelný, příběh bývalého sovětského špiona Anthony Blunta. John Banville je redaktorem literární rubriky deníku The Irish Times. |
| Kepler
But the world had not been
created in order that it should sing. God was not frivolous. From the start
he held to this, that the song was incidental, arising naturally from the
harmonious relation of things. Truth itself was, in a way, incidental.
Harmony was all.
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