Kepler, John Banville
Kepler, John Banville
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Kepler
A Novel

Author: John Banville

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/13/2024

Synopsis

The Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe.

Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in southern Germany, was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler by John Banville brilliantly re-creates his life and his work, which laid the foundation of the universe even while he was being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time, it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world, rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors.

"What Banville writes is historically accurate, but his [are] a novelist's truth, and…a lover's prose." —Newsweek

About John Banville

JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke novels written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain’s most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on April 07, 2023

[Edited 4/7/23] This is a great fictionalized biography of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). I read it as a buddy-read with my good friend Ebba Simone and I appreciate her many insights that have informed this review. Banville is truly able to get into the mind of a great scientist –......more

Goodreads review by Ian on September 03, 2021

Grand Orbit in Three Revolutions This is the second in a series of novels called the “Revolutions Trilogy". I've read the first two and suspect that these two, if not all three, are based on a template which Banville has developed. Most of my review of "Doctor Copernicus" could apply word for wor......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on August 01, 2020

He was after the eternal laws that govern the harmony of the world. Through awful thickets, in darkest night, he stalked his fabulous prey. Only the stealthiest of hunters had been vouchsafed a shot at it, and he, grossly armed with the blunderbuss of his defective mathematics, what chance had he? c......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 18, 2018

This isn’t a novel about Johannes Kepler so much as an extended reflection on what it might have been like to have been a largely unacknowledged genius living through a time of war and religious persecution with limited cash and a wife who can’t stand the sight of you. Not much fun if Banville’s por......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on September 10, 2019

Two down now, as I attempt to get through "The Revolutions Trilogy" by Banville. Next up will be the Copernicus book I have been waiting for on hold. I have not read a book by Banville that I did not like. This book was difficult for me for a couple of reasons: the hardback from Vintage Internationa......more

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