John Banville Poetic Characteristic Of "the Sea"

The irish writer John Banville won the Man Booker Prise by the novelThe Sea in the october,2005. The novel tells a story about loss andmemory. The pratagonist Marx?Morden is an dilettante in art with morethan fifty years old. In order to break away from the pain of his wife’sdeath from cancer, he came to the holiday cottage in beach wherehe spent his summer holiday with his parents in his childhood.Heoriginally wanted to calm down his inner hurt by writing a book of thepainter Bonnard, but just here the memory before came in a continuousstream. When he was a chid,the contact with the Grace in Cedarsleave a deep suffering impression in him. The two painful experiences ofnow and past cross in his life in a specail form, and present a genrepainting with the grief mood、love story missions and the mix ofmemory and reality. The novel is full of the poetic words、a great deal ofsymbolic image and metaphorical image，and the painting descriptionof the space and time, which shows the tendency of poetic novel. Thepapers mainly discuss the poetic characteristics from this four aspects:symbol、metaphor、lyricism、painting. Although the domestic researchfor John Banville is just in primary stage, his works is as important as theworks of Virginia Woolf、Marcel Proust、James Joyce、Samuel Beckett、Vladimir Nabokov, etc. I feel his works deserve our patient and carefultaste.