Ghosts in John Banville’s The Sea

When the narrator of The Sea returns after fifty years to the place by the sea where his years of childhood had come to a tragic end, he notes that his sense of the uncanny is unorthodox, since its origin is not, or not chiefly, the presence around him of the ghosts from the past, but the aura surro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierre Vitoux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2008-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/7225