The rendering is successful only because some of the Catholic Church’s own bishops and priests and religious have been guilty of such heinous crimes that one could believe the back-story that premises this fiction.īanville assumes the pen name Benjamin Black for the effort. It does seem clear that the author, notwithstanding having been educated by the Christian Brothers, perhaps because of it, does a butcher’s job of bludgeoning the Catholic Church and its representatives. It is not accurate to say that Banville lacks nuance. Banville is typical of Irish intellectuals of his time in using the Church as a scapegoat, without nuance and out of context.” Now, he takes himself entirely too seriously. When I asked an Irish scholar about Banville’s work as a writer, he said: “His early books were good, particularly those with a historical flavor.
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