bankowsky

bankowsky@csus.edu
bankowsky@hotmail.com

                                                       Especially today we must face the grave danger,
                                                       the last question asked of art: are we able to rescue
                                                       the spiritual heritage from the vulgarity pressing in
                                                       on us from all sides?
                                                                                                               (Richard Wilhelm)

This site, containing extensive excerpts of the published fiction and works-in-progress of the author, is designed for those   "page-savoring" readers and writers of serious fiction languishing in a marketplace dominated by "page-turning" addicts of escapist "genre" fiction, which has all but crowded interpretive literary fiction off  the client lists of major agents and publishers.

SITE CONTENTS:

AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN RICHARD BANKOWSKY AND DOUG BOLLING (Par Rapport: A Journal  for the Humanities vol.1, no.1) in which the common thematic pattern and unifying perspective of the novels is discussed.
 

THE ROSE TETRALOGY

from, A GLASS ROSE, Random House
from AFTER PENTECOST, Random House
from ON A DARK NIGHT, Random House
from THE PALE CRIMINALS, Random House

from THE BARBARIANS AT THE GATES, Atlantic/Little Brown

from MEDITATIONS ON AN EMPTY TOMB

from THE JUDAS TAPES

from REX NEMORENSIS

from HELLO CENTRAL GIVE ME HEAVEN
 

The GENIUS IN LOVE tetralogy:

DOSTOEVSKY IN LOVE, (stage play)
THE MADMAN OF WEIMAR, (stage play)  the screenplay
TROIKA, (stage play)
GOD'S SPIES,   (stage play)