another reason to dislike Banville

[jd]

I saw Banville speak / give a reading awhile back.  Pompous doesn't
even begin to cover it.  And he gave me a pretty good glare when I had
him sign my notebook (instead of a copy of one of his books).  He very
much is trying to create some kind of classic persona that simply
isn't backed up by the writing...  The only author I've seen whose
head is possibly further up their own ass than Banville's is would be
TC Boyle, though he made up for it by being polite at least (and from
what I've read generally a bit more interesting).

On 8/18/06, P  Taylor <neon.taylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> beyond his writing, that is:
> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/festivalvulture/2006/08/18/the_art_of_self_exposure.html#more
>
>  or maybe I'm the only one who doesn't think Greene is a minor writer...
>
>  JB:  "There's a notion that we writers are interested in the world; that we
> like the peculiarities of people and collecting characters," he said. "That
> may be the case with second rate artists, but true artists are only
> interested in what's going on in their head."
>
>  regardless of the verity of this, how pompous a statement could one ask
> for?
>
>  Nauseating.
>
>  --PT
>