Издания и произведения

Фредди Монтгомери, главное действующее лицо увлекательного криминального и психологического романа "Улики", не способен на глубокое чувство, будь то любовь или ненависть, живет и действует, "ничем не жертвуя ни злобе, ни любви". Он совершает жестокое и совершенно бессмысленное убийство. Однако почему мы испытываем к нему не только отвращение, но и сочувствие - глубокое и искреннее?

The Book of Evidence

Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master from a wealthy family friend, and he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act. He has little to say about the dead girl. He killed her, he says, because he was physically capable of doing so. It made perfect sense to smash her head in with a hammer. What he cannot understand, and would desperately like to know, is why he was so moved by an unattributed portrait of a middle-aged woman that he felt compelled to steal it . . . ‘Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are…

The Book of Evidence

"Улики", роман одного из ярких представителей современной ирландской литературы Джона Бэнвилла, рождается в результате глубокого осмысления и развития лучших традиций европейской исповедальной и философской прозы. Преступление главного героя рассматривается автором как тупик в эволюции эгоцентрического сознания личности, а наказание убийцы заключается в трагической переоценке собственного духовного опыта. Книга прочитывается как исповедь мятущегося интеллекта и подводит своеобразный итог его самоидентификации на исходе XX века. Для всех интересующихся современной зарубежной прозой.

John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly…

Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a dark and unsettling crime classic. This special 25th anniversary edition features extra material. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh. Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a Dutch old-master painting from a wealthy family friend and murdered the chambermaid who caught him in the act. Narcissistic, greedy and reckless, Freddie travels through life apparently without remorse. However, as he narrates his testimony, he realises that the…