“Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.”
John Banville (1945) Irish writer
How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin (2012)
“I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.”
"The Double Image"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
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