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Original Title:	The Book of Evidence
ISBN:	0375725237 (ISBN13: 9780375725234)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Frames: The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy #1
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1989), Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (1989), Premio Ennio Flaiano (1991)

The Book of Evidence (Frames: The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy #1) Paperback | Pages: 220 pages

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Irish novelist John Banville—known to readers of mystery fiction as Benjamin Black—had been writing novels for twenty years when, in 1989, The Book of Evidence was short-listed for the Booker. Every page of this elegant psychopathic monologue—a thief and murderer's intelligent and restrained account of his inane and violent crime—reveals Banville to be a master of his craft.

Protagonist Freddie Montgomery is—like Humbert Humbert—an unreliable narrator. He and Humbert are unreliable, however, not because they lie to us, but because their amorality and lack of feeling rob them of the capacity to connect their own actions with consequences, and therefore they are deprived of the ability to create a coherent emotional identity. Freddie, in fact, may commit his crimes—and write his "book of evidence" too—in a vain attempt to feel something—anything—and, through such feelings, to comprehend his ever elusive self. But—just like the monkey-artist in Nabokov's preface to Lolita—the first, the only, portrait he can fashion is a picture of the bars of his cage.

In addition to the unreliability of his narrator, Banville resembles Nabokov in the beauty of his prose. Though his style is less resplendent and concentrated, it is also more melodious and precise. The jeweled splendor of Nabokov is perhaps inimitable, but one could do worse than imitate Banville's flowing, pellucid style.

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Title	:	The Book of Evidence (Frames: The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy #1)
Author	:	John Banville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage International Edition, June 2001
Pages	:	Pages: 220 pages
Published	:	June 12th 2001 by Vintage Books (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Mystery. Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction

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These are the confessions from prison of a first person unreliable narrator who does not believe in free will, is convinced that the self is illusory, finds cause and effect problematical, and becomes a gifted scientist who finds reality probabilistic. He admits to feeling intimidated by other people who seem so sure of themselves, and he sees himself as being easily influenced by the arguments of others, or at least prone to agree with them so as to feel good about himself or at least accepted.

John Banville's Book of Evidence is a disturbing short novel about Freddie Montgomery, a man who has committed murder. This is his account of his life and what led him to kill.Needless to say, it is disturbing. Freddie rambles, filling his audience in on his life in bits and pieces, going back and forth in time without taking a break. There are no chapter divisions, so this novel would be best read in as close to one sitting as possible, just to appreciate the nature of Freddie's associations

Sometimes I wonder what strange motives we have for picking up a certain book at a certain time! As I had just finished rereading Albert Camus' L'Étranger, I thought I would try something completely different to soothe my nerves, and I picked up Banville in a secondhand bookstore, knowing exactly nothing about the story, plot and character of The Book of Evidence. And what do I find? An Irish stranger, a man who walks around trying to make sense of his own senseless violence and indifference.

Never have I liked a book more in the first 10 pages that I hated more in the next 210 pages. The basic premise is that the main character (I hesitate to call him the protagonist) is in jail for killing someone and we find out over the course of the novel what happened. He is clearly a psychopath or sociopath or...something, I don't know, he's crazy.At first I was hoping this was going to be some sore of Hannibal Lecter/Professor Moriarty evil genius walks us through his crime situation. Not so

Just arrived from Australia through BM. A magnificent book!!

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.Freddie Montgomery, the first-person narrator confesses to murder and presents his confession as he sits in jail awaiting trial the readers therefore are the judge and jury. Freddie has spent years drifting. When he seriously gets into debt he leaves his wife and son as hostages and returns home to raise some cash to affect their release. However, it is not a happy homecoming and he shortly afterwards

A Hangover with a VengeanceIs it possible to explain a crime without rationalising and therefore justifying it; that is, understanding it as reasonable while recognising it as immoral. This is the issue posed in The Book of Evidence. And it is an important issue in criminal law not just in moral theory. There is probably no living writer in the English language who could better find the words to explore this question. Banville's particular skill in two domains, alcohol poisoning and the