'Oh yeah. My books must be an absolute nightmare to translate.' - Banville

'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

Banville is, truly, a Master.