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John Banville: "The essence of art is difficulty and society has given it up"

Aesthete of the word and master of irony, the Irish writer puts an end to more than half a century devoted to narrating our slippery reality with beauty with 'Las singularidades' (Alfaguara), a tribute novel that delves into the themes of a life for the one that parades a good part of its past characters

John Banville Irish writer ROBERTO RICCIUTI