Novelist John Banville is preoccupied with the weight of the past on the present in his new memoir.
Knopf
9781524732837
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Knopf
9781524732837
Novelist John Banville is preoccupied with the weight of the past on the present in his new memoir.
Two recent memoirs by Irish writers explore the haunting presence of the past in Irish lives and communities. Although James Joyce’s literary avatar Stephen Dedalus declared history “a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” the Irish are known for their infatuation with the past.
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