…the reader is caught up in it, mysteriously affected and at moments quite profoundly moved.
Books The Sea, The Sea
- Author
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Iris Murdoch
- Year
- 1978
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
Also by Murdoch
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All the Murdoch sleight-of-hand is brought into play here: exotic scene-setting, intricate patterns of coincidence and relationship, ambivalent sexual currents, a seemingly unlimited supply of plot…
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Her world is ignited by belief. She believes in everything: true love, veridical visions, magic, monsters, pagan spirits. She doesn’t tell you how the household cat is looking, or even feeling: she tells you what it is thinking.
Our Thoughts
Charles Arrowby is particularly despicable, and utterly lovable and engaging in his horridness. Am I implicated in his crimes for wishing him success?
— Brian Flanagan
The Black Prince
The Sea, The Sea
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
The Green Knight
The Dead Father
Creation
Autumn of the Patriarch
The Age of Innocence
White Noise
Paradise