Doctor Copernicus

1976 novel by John Banville
First UK edition
(publ. Secker & Warburg)

Doctor Copernicus is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1976. "A richly textured tale" about Nicolaus Copernicus,[1] it won that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[2]

Doctor Copernicus contains four sections. The first two focus on the subject's life until about the age of 36. In the third, Copernicus's aide Rheticus narrates how he convinced Copernicus to publish De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. The fourth focuses on the great scientist's death.

Thirty years after it first appeared, Brian McIlroy praised Doctor Copernicus for its "great intellectual ambition." Linda Hutcheon, in A Poetics of Postmodernism, wrote that it is a "historiographic metafiction."[3]

References

  1. ^ Arana, Marie (19 September 1999). "John Banville: Ireland's Wordsmith". The Washington Post.Archived 2017-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Outsider rides Booker's wave of success as The Sea rolls in". The Scotsman. 11 October 2005. Retrieved 11 October 2005.
  3. ^ McIlroy, Brian (2006). "Theory, Science and Negotiation: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus". Irish University Review. 36 (1): 25–38. JSTOR 25517290.
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Works by John Banville
Novels
  • Doctor Copernicus (1976)
  • Kepler (1981)
  • The Newton Letter (1982)
  • The Book of Evidence (1989)
  • Ghosts (1993)
  • Athena (1995)
  • The Untouchable (1997)
  • Eclipse (2000)
  • Shroud (2002)
  • The Sea (2005)
  • The Infinities (2009)
  • Ancient Light (2012)
Short stories
  • Long Lankin (1970)
Plays
  • Todtnauberg (2006)
Screenwriter
  • Reflections (1984)
  • The Last September (1999)
  • Albert Nobbs (2011)
  • The Sea (2013)
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