John Banville's haunted journeys to Prague of the mind portraits of the invisible side of a city

Laura P. Z. Izarra

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2009n57p117

Authors

Laura P. Z. Izarra USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2009n57p117

Abstract

John Banville's haunted journeys to Prague of the mind portraits of the invisible side of a city

Author Biography

Laura P. Z. Izarra, USP

Laura P. Z. Izarra is Professor of English Literatures at the University of São Paulo. She is the author of Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths: The Process of a 'New' Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (1999), co-author of Reading mixed reception: The case of The Satanic Verses (2001), editor of A Literatura da Virada do Século: Fim das Utopias? (2001) and Literaturas Estrangeiras e o Brasil: Diálogos (2004), and co-editor of Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland (2003), Irish Studies in Brazil (2005), A New Ireland in Brazil (2008) and ABEI Journal - The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies since 1999. She published numerous articles on the Literatures of the Diaspora and her forthcoming book is Narrativas de las diásporas: identidades en formación. Los irlandeses bajo la Cruz del Sur (2009).