Talk:John Banville

message: This page contains many links twice or many times. For example, to The Sea, there are about 4-5 links. This is against Wikipedia style. Please remove every link except the first (or most relevant).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.78.180.148 (talk) 20:22, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double wiki links 

message: I thought John Banville did a spell at teacher training in the UK circa 1970 ish? Long Lankin came out of this period.
As a teenager John (whom we knew as 'Jack') was an accomplished amateur cabinet maker.  In the sixties Renault cars were imported into Wexford for assembly.  The parts were packed in large plywood crates which were sold off to locals. They were frequesntly used for pidgeon house and furniture (shelves, cabinets etc.). The ply was top quality - no voids.  Jack's mother grew the most wonderful roses. Tall, long stemmed with potent scent. He tends to use Wexford surnames in his fiction - e.g Quirke in The Sea. Where he grew up in Wexford (a council estate called Bernadette Place)once had a vista onto a large rock outcrop called Trespan which rose out a rocky bramble covered field. Behind Trespan, the country side of South Wexfrod rolled out to the sea many miles off in Rosslare. A recently built housing estate completely cut offs off any view of the rock from his old house.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.37.104 (talk) 13:49, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few points of information 

message: John Banville is a bit of a clown; if that's the word I'm looking for. Misty sonambulism; clouds.
j —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.137.0.9 (talk • contribs) 10:19, 12 August 2005 
: He's very far from a 'clown', anonymous ip. + Ceoil 19:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: J's Openion

message: as far as I am aware Banville lives in Howth, Co. Dublin rather than central Dublin. found this bio to corroborate http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/artist/John_Banville/11.htm
No, that biography dates from 2000, and doesn't mention any of his books since "The Untouchable". He lives on Bachelor's Walk on the quays of the Liffey in central Dublin. (He has said that it is a very inappropriately named place for him to live.) The only proof I have is that one sees him in the Jervis Street shopping centre which is 5 minutes away. Rory.
Bachelor's Walk is right - [see this]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.94.251.150 (talk) 08:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Residence 

message: I think perhaps the following quote regarding Banville's work would be useful at some point in this article, perhaps at the end of the opening paragraph. 
Banville's work has been described as ‘one of the most startling of the century’s varied achievements in Irish writing’ The source is Seamus Deane, A Short History of Irish Literature, (London: Routledge, 1986), p.223) What do you think?IrishGothicJournal 13:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  addition 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: Upon visiting the article to determine suitability for WP:ITN, I am intrigued by something in a sentence here about the Franz Kafka Prize that I think should be explored at greater length:
:"He was unavailable for comment as John Banville due to the release of the latest Benjamin Black novel the following week, but when asked by the Irish Independent if Banville's writing was Kafkaesque, Benjamin Black replied: "All I can say is that John Banville and Franz Kafka deserve each other".
Perhaps this is a moment's drollness and more pedestrian than it sounds, but I'm interested to learn more about the nature of this duality that occasions such Black commentary on Banville.  I mean, do "they" dress differently?  Different hairstyles?  Different beverages at the book signing?  Yes, I'm having fun but I'm serious, I find this fascinating and while the different genres and styles of writing are obviously the biographical springboard, that's secondary to the in-person quotes, manner, and any other idiosyncratic distinctions between the public Black and the public Banville.  Thanks to anyone who can illuminate this for me and the reader.  Abrazame (talk) 09:48, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Banville clearly draws amusement from presenting imagined dialogue and mutual opinion between his two "selves", one real but presented as a slightly fictional character for the sake of fun and self-deprecation ("Banville") and the other one, "Black". Banville just plays this game in interviews to amuse himself; there really is nothing serious to be inferred from his playfulness. — O'Dea (talk) 09:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You might be interested in (or perhaps in this context amused by) the article dissociative identity disorder.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.111.125 (talk) 18:20, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the unavailability of oneself 

message: Have edited for some odd word choices - he didn't "blame" Koestler for his interest in scientists, but (going back to the source) said that Koestler's novel about Kepler stimulated his own interest. Added more content to show a concept that related to his exploring scientists through his historical novels, that he thought scientists, in trying to impose order, did something similar to writers. Similarly, it seemed odd to say he "admitted" trying to combine poetry and prose in a new form; "said" is sufficient; he wasn't confessing a crime or sin. Journalists try to add human interest content; an encyclopedia doesn't need such trivia as Doyle's side comment related to the Kafka Prize - does not relate to Banville or the significance of the prize. Deleted this.Parkwells (talk) 15:56, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your work. Span (talk) 23:16, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Word choices/trivia

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message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 12:14, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have continued this work and begun building John Banville bibliography. I reasoned that this would be fine due to the precedents that can be viewed in :Category:Bibliographies by writer and due to Banville contributing many articles to The New York Review of Books, The Irish Times, etc. over the decades, which would take over this page entirely if they were all to be included. Please feel free to continue building the bibliography there and working on the biography here. --Scheibfeder (talk) 02:37, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :John Banville's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "history":
From International Standard Book Number: 
From Trinity University (Texas): 
From Dublin: 
From Booker Prize: 
From National Library of Israel: Jewish National & University Library History  
From Osterley Park: Tom Wintringham (History Learning Site) accessed 29 Jan 2008
From Saturday (novel): "Saturday". Ian McEwan's Official Website. Retrieved on 11 February 2010
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 11:48, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:John Banville]]