John Banville
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Oct 30, 2026
Rebecca SugarHOST
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A.R. HoffmanHOST
Okay, so my sunlight is statements from the novelist John Banville.
A.R. HoffmanHOST
Banville is an Irish writer who's oftentimes long listed for the Nobel.
A.R. HoffmanHOST
And he just had this great interview where he decried the way in which politics and specifically kind of leftist politics is like infected and overtaken, like so many writers and artists and celebrities.
David WhittleGUEST
I don't know why.
David WhittleGUEST
I often wonder, I mean, it drives me on the bend when some of these authors, you know, there's John Banville in Ireland who writes as Benjamin Black.
David WhittleGUEST
And it says that on the cover.
David WhittleGUEST
And you think, well, is he a schizophrenic? I'm not sure I'm allowed to say that these days.
speaker_2HOST
Is that something you've always written about? And is it like what kind of draws you towards writing about that?
Liz NugentGUEST
i think they were the books i kind of like to read like um my my first inspiration really was a book called the book of evidence by john banville published in 1989 and i I read it around that time, but then I was a stage manager in a former life and I worked on a stage production of the Book of Evidence in 2002 in Kilkenny Arts Festival here.
Liz NugentGUEST
And that was the inspiration for writing Unraveling All of It.
Liz NugentGUEST
But I didn't start to do that until 2008, and I didn't finish it until 2012.
Rick O'SheaHOST
It appeared anonymously in London on the twenty-eighth of October, seventeen twenty-six, under the rather longer title, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Rick O'SheaHOST
Recently on Arena, John Banville joined us to consider the extraordinary literary life of a book that's traveled far beyond its beginnings as an eighteenth-century satire.
Rick O'SheaHOST
Now, as the anniversary itself approaches, we're looking at another creative response to Swift's strange and unsettling worlds through the music of composer Sean Davey.
Rick O'SheaHOST
His Gulliver, A Choral Symphony, brings together orchestra, organ, and choir using words from the Psalms that Swift would have known as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Liberty HardyHOST
I've never heard of Caroline Blackwood, uh, although I will explain a little bit later why I should have.
Liberty HardyHOST
Um, so John Banville wrote about this last month in a publication somewhere.
Liberty HardyHOST
It might have just been on the Booker Prize website that I was looking at because the Booker Prize had been announced.
Liberty HardyHOST
It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1977, but Caroline Blackwood was an heiress born in 1931, and she basically just led sort of a quiet life, I believe, for quite some time.
William BoydGUEST
Kind of blend Dayton's novels as well, Alan Furst, so, you know, the, the, the great spy novels that, uh, that, that we have in our literature, which many of them have been written by literary novelists, not people who just practice in the genre.
William BoydGUEST
You know, John Banville, Sebastian Faulks, Graham Greene, et cetera, Muriel Spark, uh, Elizabeth Bowen.
William BoydGUEST
You know, there's, there's a rich, rich tradition of literary novelists who have been drawn to this genre, and I'm no exception.
William BoydGUEST
I, I'm drawn to it as well, but I think it's, it's the mystery and complexity and the, um, uh, double and triple bluff aspect of it all that, uh, that beguiles.
William BoydGUEST
So it's so defining.
William BoydGUEST
Glenn Dayton's novels as well, Alan Furst, you know, the great spy novels that we have in our literature, which many of them have been written by literary novelists, not people who just practice in the genre, you know, John Banville, Sebastian Foltz, Graham Greene, et cetera, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Bowen, you know, there's a rich, rich tradition of literary novelists who have
Oliver Webb-CarterHOST
been
William BoydGUEST
drawn to this genre And I'm no exception.