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John Banville`s The Sea (2005) is not only a highly stylistic novel but also a novel about style. In The Sea Banville poses his obsessive question of identity and authenticity in relation to style as writing as well as writing as style and complicates the notion of style as traditionally understood in literary criticism. Contrary to most commentators reading of the novel`s style as merely manner of writing, in this essay I argue that Banville explores style as both manner of writing and manner of expression distinctive of its writer. The novel`s rich language is one aspect among others of a distinctive style that the writer, John Banville, has forged during almost four decades of writing and in which he appears, in The Sea, uncannily at home. However, the identity obtained through style, like all other forms of identity previously investigated by Banville, is necessarily inauthentic. Any identity obtained through style, Banville believes, is obtained in what Sartre called bad faith; style betrays the writer`s attempt to make himself what he is by playing at being someone he is not.

“The Old Illusion of Belonging”: Distinctive Style, Bad Faith and John Banville’s The Sea