The Book of Evidence

A nominee for the 1989 Booker Prize.
“Evidence,” a novel by one of the outstanding representatives of contemporary Irish literature, John Banville, is born from deep reflection and the development of the best traditions of European confessional and philosophical prose. The author views the central character’s crime as a dead end in the evolution of a person’s egocentric consciousness, and the killer’s punishment lies in a tragic reassessment of his own spiritual experience. The book reads like the confession of a tormented intellect and provides a kind of conclusion to his self-identification at the end of the 20th century. For everyone interested in contemporary foreign fiction.