http://www.wordnik.com/lists/john-banville-and-his-quest-to-frustrate-readers.xml 'Oh yeah. My books must be an absolute nightmare to translate.' - Banville<br /><br />'Brandishing Roget's apotropaic caduceus, Banville's prose is flocculent and positively crepitant with memory's torsions, but the strangury of obscure vocabulary tends to embalm The Sea in a hebetudinous catafalque. (Is cracaleured even a word?)' - Jessica Winter<br /><br />Banville is, truly, a Master. http://www.wordnik.com http://www.wordnik.com/words/ichor Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:45:24 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/ichor http://www.wordnik.com/words/cracaleured Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:45:17 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/cracaleured http://www.wordnik.com/words/ovine Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:42:55 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/ovine http://www.wordnik.com/words/inutile Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/inutile http://www.wordnik.com/words/paean Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:17:00 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/paean http://www.wordnik.com/words/velutinous Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:14:20 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/velutinous http://www.wordnik.com/words/crepitant Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:14:09 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/crepitant http://www.wordnik.com/words/cinereal Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:13:59 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/cinereal http://www.wordnik.com/words/flocculent Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:13:24 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/flocculent