About the book: year / The exquisite, complex style and richness of language of the novel by Booker Prize winner, classic of Irish literature John Banville (John Banville) "Eclipse" (Eclipse, 2000) deserved in literary reviews he is compared with Nabokov and modern Japanese prose writers. The story of a fifty-year-old actor in crisis, who has lost himself, who comes to his childhood home to face the ghosts of the past all alone, and they turn into harbingers of the tragedy of the future, is woven from memories and fleeting impressions, experiences and premonitions. The past, present, and future merge, reality loses the signs of reality, the illusory gains life. A confession very Irish in intonation, in which narcissism is inseparable from self-abasement, the funny from the tragic, admiration from ridicule, for all its whimsicality and seeming chaoticness, it is subject to the rigid logic of the plot.