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2 unusual facts about Banville


Auguste Corteau

In addition to the fourteen novels, novellas and short stories collections he has published over the years, he has also worked extensively as a translator, and has translated into Greek numerous works by masters of prose such as Nabokov, Banville, Updike, Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy.

Banville

Banville, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France


The Infinities

"In the 1980s, Banville challenged his readers to imagine a Nabokov novel based on the life of a Gödel or an Einstein," says Irish literary critic Val Nolan in The Sunday Business Post.


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