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Mefisto

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23 September 2011
320 pages
9781447211747
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

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