The refined, complex style and richness of the language of the novel of the winner of the Booker Prize, the classic of Irish literature John Banville "Eclipse" (Eclipse, 2000) earned him in literary reviews comparison with Nabokov and modern Japanese prose writers . History of the Crisis , [CM 50-year-old actor , Who came to the house of his childhood , To face the ghosts of the past alone.... They are the forerunners of the tragedy of the future ,. from memories and fleeting impressions , Feelings and Premonitions[edit] The past, the present, the future merge, reality loses the signs of reality, the ghost finds life A very Irish confession in which narcissism is inseparable from self-deprecation, funny from tragic, admiring from ridicule, for all its whimsicality and seeming chaos, is subject to the rigid logic of the plot.