Banville Puns

This is from John Banville's introduction to a new edition of "Dracula" --

https://crimereads.com/john-banville-how-bram-stokers-dracula-became-a-surprising-deathless-classic/

Once in a while I fall into this lethargic funk where I don’t care about anything. Everything seems so meaningless that I just don’t see the point of going on. The protagonist of this book feels the same way. As the book opens he has slumped into a lull where he cannot continue his years-long biographical project on Isaac Newton. Turns out Newton felt the feeling also. After Newton’s life’s work crested with Principia, he delved into some weird occultish research that went nowhere; and then he just kinda gave up on everything. No one’s immune, apparently, to this existential surrender. 'The Newton Letter' explores this feeling metaphorically, postulating where it comes from.

Banville attributes it ultimately to our inability to grasp the true source of things, the locus of existence, that meaningful, unshakeable center of everything. We just can’t seem to touch it, he shows, no matter what kind of will we put toward it, or genius. He personifies that ultimate truth as a woman he cannot love. She is blurred, as if drugged, and opaque, and remote. Degraded, she is -- worn out, wasted away. He recognizes that what he sees of her superficially is merely a ghost of her hidden self. And she is inaccessible to him for all kinds of reasons -- Because of the dissipation of the world that surrounds her; because of how the world obstructs and distracts him while in her presence. In the end we all end up accepting a substitute for this ultimate truth. A younger, more persistent and gauche creature. “Unlovely” the protagonist calls this other entity, though entertaining and physically satisfying. She is the regular world that, by default, we all inhabit.

Banville portrays a haunting kind of nostalgia in this book. As if we humans are aware of something we’ve never actually experienced, longing romantically for a memory we’ve never actually lived: That ultimate truth that continually escapes us.

Hi!

Can anyone recommend me a book with a writing style similar to John Banville's? I really loved The Sea, The Untouchable, Shroud, The Book of Evidence, etc. Would love to find a new author with a (at least somewhat) similar writing style!