Celebrated contemporary Irish novelist John Banville’s The Untouchable is a purely aesthetic delight. By Leo Smith Aug Literature. Tweet. Illustration by Catherine Cao. In , U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed that Sir Anthony Blunt — art historian, a close associate of the royal family, and former MI-5 officer — had been a Russian double agent during www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. Athena () is about a man hired to authenticate a group of paintings. Banville’s characters are experts in artificial perfection. His engrossing novel The Untouchable is about one of the most famous and infamous art historians of the 20th century, an aesthete who lived a secret life www.doorway.ru books//feb/11/johnbanville. Beautifully written, filled with convincing fictional portraits of Maskell's co-conspirators, and vibrant with the mysteries of loyalty and identity, The Untouchable places John Banville in the select company of both Conrad and le Carre. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this /5().
John Banville's The Untouchable is a remarkable book for myriad reasons. For the sheer artistry of his prose alone, I would recommend this book. The weight and care placed upon each word and sentence gives the novel a wonderfully balanced and effortless feel, and at the same time leaves the reader in no doubt that he/she is in the presence of a. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Vintage International Ser.: The Untouchable by John Banville (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Celebrated contemporary Irish novelist John Banville's The Untouchable is a purely aesthetic delight. Illustration by Catherine Cao. In , U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed that Sir Anthony Blunt — art historian, a close associate of the royal family, and former MI-5 officer — had been a Russian double agent during WWII.
Beautifully written, filled with convincing fictional portraits of Maskell's co-conspirators, and vibrant with the mysteries of loyalty and identity, The Untouchable places John Banville in the select company of both Conrad and le Carre. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this. The Untouchable is a novel by John Banville. The book is written as a roman à clef, presented from the point of view of the art historian, double agent and homosexual Victor Maskell—a character based largely on Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt and in part on Irish poet Louis MacNeice. The character of Guy Burgess is prominent and easily identifiable, that of Maclean plays a minor role only. John Banville’s The Untouchable () gives imaginative life to what Lord Annan, then Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, described as “the long-running inquest upon the culture, morality, and.
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