Doctor Copernicus

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Doctor Copernicus is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1976. "A richly textured tale" about Nicolaus Copernicus,[1] it won that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[2]

Doctor Copernicus contains four sections. The first two focus on the subject's life up until about the age of 36, while the fourth focuses on the subject's death.

Thirty years after it first appeared Brian McIlroy praised Doctor Copernicus for its "great intellectual ambition." Linda Hutcheon, in A Poetics of Postmodernism, that it is a "historiographic metafiction."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Arana, Marie (19 September 1999). 's+Wordsmith&pqatl=google "John Banville: Ireland's Wordsmith". The Washington Post. 
  2. ↑ "Outsider rides Booker's wave of success as The Sea rolls in". The Scotsman. 11 October 2005. Retrieved 11 October 2005. 
  3. ↑ McIlroy, Brian (2006). Theory, Science and Negotiation: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus. JSTOR 25517290. 
Works by John Banville
Novels
Short stories
  • Long Lankin (1970)
Plays
  • The Broken Jug (1994)
  • Seachange (1994)
  • Dublin 1742 (2002)
  • God's Gift (2000)
  • Love in the Wars (2005)
  • Conversation in the Mountains (2008)
Non-fiction
  • Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City (2003)
Benjamin Black
  • Christine Falls (2006)
  • The Silver Swan (2007)
  • The Lemur (2008)
  • Elegy for April (2010)
  • A Death in Summer (2011)
  • Vengeance (2012)
Screenwriter
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