A review by robshpprd
La guitarra azul by John Banville

3.0

This is my second Banville novel. There’s a pattern for sure. Beautiful language and a painful lack of plot. The most interesting moments are tricks lifted almost directly out of Nabokov. There’s a line in this novel about (I think) Cezanne, something like, “I could see his greatness, I just didn’t like what he did with it.” That’s kind of how I feel about Banville. He’s talented for sure. I just don’t much care for the stories he chooses to tell with that talent.