“Cancele, sim, cancele e comece de novo”: O Caminho de John Banville de Einstein a Mefisto

Autores

  • Kersti Tarien Powell University in Philadelphia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v22i1.3853

Palavras-chave:

Mefisto, Manuscritos literários, Voz narrativa, Albert Einstein, Ciência e literatura

Resumo

Com foco em manuscritos não publicados, este artigo é a primeira tentativa acadêmica de investigar a evolução textual e temática de Mefisto (1986), de John Banville. Como originalmente concebido, a história de Mefisto seria livremente baseada na vida de Albert Einstein, a fim de investigar as correntes morais e políticas da weltanchauung europeia do século XX. No entanto, o processo de cinco anos de composição do romance culmina com a erradicação dessas preocupações históricas, morais e científicas. Mefisto finalmente nasceu quando Banville estabelece a voz narrativa de Gabriel Swan. Como este artigo argumenta, este romance constitui um ponto de virada não apenas para a tetralogia científica, mas também para a carreira literária de Banville.

Biografia do Autor

  • Kersti Tarien Powell, University in Philadelphia
    Kersti Tarien Powell is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She has written extensively on contemporary Irish authors, especially John Banville. Her articles on Banville have appeared in the Irish University Review, Éire–Ireland, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and the Yearbook of English Studies. Her latest project was a 10,000-word overview article on Banville commissioned for the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-first Century Irish Fiction Writers (forthcoming in 2019).

Referências

Acocella, Joan. “Doubling Down.” The New Yorker (8 October 2012).

Banville, John. Prospectus. Secker & Warburg. The Archive of British Publishing and Printing. University of Reading. , ‘Einstein,’ TS Draft, 10252/8/9. John Banville collection. Trinity College Library in Dublin.

---. ‘Einstein,’ TS Draft, 10252/8/10. John Banville collection. Trinity College Library in Dublin.

---. ‘Einstein,’ MS Draft, 10252/8/6. John Banville collection. Trinity College Library in Dublin.

---. ‘Gemini,’ MS Draft, 10252/8/7. John Banville collection. Trinity College Library in Dublin.

---. ‘Version III,’ TS Draft, 10252/8/3. John Banville collection. Trinity College Library in Dublin.

---. Mefisto. 1986. London: Minerva, 1993.

Bernstein, Jeremy. Einstein. Suffolk: Fontana/Collins, 1973.

Best, Nicholas. “When Predatory Children Run in Germany.” The Financial Times. 13 September 1986: xiv.

Carty, Ciaran. “Out of Chaos Comes Order.” The Sunday Tribune. 14 September 1986:18.

Einstein, Albert. “Autobiographical Notes.” Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Ed. Paul Arthur Schlipp. Vol.1. New York: Harper & Brother’s Publishers, 1951: 1-95.

Findlay, Allen. “An Irish Devil.” Literary Review. (November) 1986: 11.

Friberg, Hedda. “John Banville and Derek Hand in Conversation.” Irish University Review, vol.36, no.1, (Spring-Summer) 2006: 200-215.

Hand, Derek. John Banville: Exploring Fictions. Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2002.

Hoffmann, Banesh. Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel. New York: The Viking Press, 1972.

Imhof, Rüdiger. “Mefisto.” Irish University Review. Vol.17, No.1 (Spring, 1987): 137-140.

---. “Q & A with John Banville.” Irish Literary Supplement. (Spring, 1987): 13.

Jackson, Joe. “Hitler, Stalin, Bob Dylan, Roddy Doyle… and Me.” Hot Press. Vol.18, No.19 (5 October 1994): 14-16.

Kelly, William. “John Banville’s Great Expectations.” Irish Literary Supplement. (Spring, 1987): 15.

Leland, Mary. “Gabriel’s Sinister Angel.” Irish Times. 13 September 1986: 5.

Lenzen, Victor F. “Einstein’s Theory of Knowledge.” Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Ed. Paul Arthur Schlipp. Vol.2. New York: Harper & Borother’s Publishers, 1951: 355-384.

McKeon, Belinda. “John Banville, The Art of Fiction No.200.” The Paris Review. No. 188. Spring 2009. 132-153.

Meaney, Helen. “Master of Paradox.” Irish Times. 24 March 1993, 12.

O’Mahony, Andy, ‘Interview with John Banville.’ The Book Show. RTÉ 1. 15 April 1976.

Powell, Kersti Tarien. “‘The Answer … Is Yes and No’: John Banville, Henry James, and The Ambassadors.” Irish University Review, vol. 45, no. 2, Nov. 2015: 302–319.

Sheehan, Ronan. “The Devil I Know.” Image. (September) 1986: 164, 166.

---.“John Banville and the Music of the Spheres.” The Irish Times. 13 September 1986: 9.

Tonkin, Boyd. “The Wrong Choice in a List Packed with Delights.” The Independent (11 October 2005)

Walters, Margaret. “Middle Distance Man.” The Observer. 14 September 1986: 27.

Downloads

Publicado

20-02-2021

Edição

v. 22 n. 1 (2020): ABEI Journal 22.1 — Word Upon World: Half a Century of John Banville's Universes

Seção

Critical Dialogues

Licença

Copyright (c) 2020 Kersti Tarien Powell

Creative Commons License

Este trabalho está licenciado sob uma licença Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Como Citar

Powell, K. T. (2021). “Cancele, sim, cancele e comece de novo”: O Caminho de John Banville de Einstein a Mefisto. ABEI Journal, 22(1), 135-146. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v22i1.3853