IRIS MURDOCH A LIFE

A MAGISTERIAL BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST PERCEPTIVE ENDLISH WRITERS. MURDOCH PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN ENGLISH LIFE AND LETTERS FOR HALF A CENTURY FINE BOOK AND D.J. OWNER NAME ON END PAPER

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In "Iris Murdoch," Peter Conradi assesses the remarkable intellectual and cultural legacy of the celebrated philosopher and beloved novelist. Depicting her personal life in extraordinary detail -- her student days at Oxford, her Communist activities, her early affairs, and her enduring marriage to John Bayley -- he also deftly interprets her philosophical works and twenty-six novels with brilliant clarity and insight. Murdoch emerges as a writer who in her early years imagined herself as the heir to George Eliot but later found a kinship with Dostoevsky's fantastic realism, his obsessions with sadomasochism, and his philosophical fascination with moral anarchy. Relying on ninety-five hitherto unseen diaries, hundreds of interviews, and thousands of letters, Conradi has written a riveting biography that is as much an absorbing history of literary England from 1940 to the present as it is a vivid depiction of one of our greatest twentieth-century writers.

Product Info

ISBN: 0393048756

ISBN-13: 9780393048759

Publisher: W.W. NORTON

Year: 2001

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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