Mefisto - Hardcover

Banville, John

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523 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043603266X ISBN 13: 9780436032660

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1986

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A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life. From the author of ATHENA and BOOK OF EVIDENCE.

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Mefisto renders all superlatives woefully inadequate . . . Undisputed master of language, the laconic pause and the blackly comic, Banville is a supreme stylist . . . He is a magician . . . Another expectedly astonishing and very daring display from this richly, almost wickedly, gifted artist. (Time Out)

An excellent novel, beautifully written. the sort of thing you have to read more than once – wonderful stuff. (Punch)

Few writers in Ireland today can arouse such expectation by the advent of a new novel . . . A profound beauty of words displayed by their lover . . . Banville’s great enterprise does not falter . . . read Mefisto straight through; it deserves it. (Irish Times)

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‘Fable, intellectual thriller, Gothic extravaganza, symbolist conundrum . . . a true work of art’ Sunday Independent

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