Download or read book John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions written by M. O'Connell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In reading Banville's novels through the work of key psychoanalytical theorists, John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions brings together apparently disparate thematic strands - missing twins, shame, false identities - and presents these as manifestations of a central concern with narcissism.