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Eclipse (Banville novel)
''Eclipse'' (2000) is a novel by the Irish writer John Banville, though its intensely lyrical style and unorthodox structure have prompted some to describe it as more prose poem than novel. Along with the novels ''Shroud'' and ''Ancient Light,'' it comprises a trilogy concerning an actor Alexander Cleave and his estranged daughter Cass.
==Plot and themes==
Its narrator, Alexander Cleave, is a 50-year-old, disillusioned actor who retreats from his career and his wife Lydia to his empty childhood home for an indefinite period of introspection. He seeks to uncover, he says, "the blastomere of myself, the coiled hot core of all I was and might be"〔Banville, John. ''Eclipse''. Alfred Knopf, 2000, p.15〕 from years of accreted guises. Banville is concerned in this novel with "the elusive and unstable nature of identity."〔 Cleave's ruminations take up the dynamics of family, the nature of identity, and the reliability of memory.
The book also addresses epistemological themes. Cleave's solitude is interrupted by what he provisionally believes to be ghosts, "sightings, brief, diaphanous, gleamingly translucent, like a series of photographs blown up to life-size and for a moment made wanly animate."〔Banville, John. ''Eclipse''. Alfred Knopf, 2000, p.45〕 Later he discovers furtive squatters in his house. He also receives portents of the fate of his estranged daughter, Cass, the meaning of which he does not apprehend until the story's conclusion. Of this, Alex Clark writes in ''The Guardian'', ″Ghosts, it appears, can exist in the future as well as the past; whether or not we choose to respond to their beckoning is another matter.″〔Clark, Alex.″(Giving Up the Ghosts ),″ ''The Guardian,'' 16 September 2000. Retrieved 2011-7-21〕
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