| 词条 | The Infinities |
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| name = The Infinities | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:The Infinities John Banville.jpg | caption = First edition cover | author = John Banville | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Ireland | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Novel, Alternate History | publisher = Picador | release_date = 4 September 2009 | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = 256 pp | isbn = 978-0-330-45024-9 | oclc= 373479667 | preceded_by = The Sea | followed_by = }} The Infinities is a 2009 novel by John Banville. Plot introductionThe book involves a reunion of the Godley family as the family patriarch, Adam, lies in a coma on his deathbed. The book takes place in an alternative reality with the world powered by cold fusion and steam trains are still in use. His family, consisting of Adam his son (and Adam's wife Helen), his daughter Petra and his wife Ursula are present at this reunion. The story is narrated by the god Hermes, who dictates how the story will unfold along with his father Zeus and his mother Maia.[1] HistoryBanville intended The Infinities as a faithful adaptation of the play Amphitryon by the German playwright Heinrich von Kleist. The novel did not turn out quite like this though - "I kept the Skeleton, but fiction always goes in its own direction." [2] ReceptionThe Infinities, Banville's first novel under his own name since 2005, was well received and seen to fit naturally into his oeuvre. "In the 1980s, Banville challenged his readers to imagine a Nabokov novel based on the life of a Gödel or an Einstein," wrote Irish literary critic Val Nolan in The Sunday Business Post. "The Infinities is finally that book. Old Adam's lineage runs through Oppenheimer, Hilbert, Brahe, Kepler, and hence to Banville's so-called Revolutions Trilogy of science novels." [3]External links
Notes1. ^http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/john-banville/infinities.htm {{John Banville}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Infinities, The}}{{2000s-sf-novel-stub}}2. ^Irish Examiner; 5 September 2009. 3. ^{{cite news|first=Val|last=Nolan|url=http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2009/09/06/story44054.asp|title=Banville shines with profound rendering of a parallel universe|newspaper=The Sunday Business Post|date=6 September 2009|accessdate=30 October 2009}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=no}} 4 : 2009 novels|Alternate history novels|Novels by John Banville|Picador (imprint) books |
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