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Title: Banville Fans Will And Should Read The Oeuvre
Review: Here the luminous Irish prose stylist essays a broken-down retired humanities professor agonizing over his having assumed the identity of another in the chaos of war in Belgium. His distinguished persona is threatened by an ethereal though schizophrenic young woman who possibly had learnt of his lifelong fraud. Somehow, a la Roth's fantasies of the past decade, the decrepit academic beds the nymph immediately. One lives; one dies.That said, for Banville aficianodos, every line, every page is riveting. What weather condition, what smell, what light obtains?
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