An edition of Iris Murdoch (1986)

Iris Murdoch

a life

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An edition of Iris Murdoch (1986)

Iris Murdoch

a life

1st American ed.
  • 6 Want to read

"Iris Murdoch's life - like her books - was full of extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers, artists, writers and poets of her time. During the war she pondered Aldous Huxley's doctrine that, for a writer, 'it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters,' and she later wrote that the person who might help her better herself 'must not distinguish between me and my work'.

She was sometimes portrayed as a bourgeois grandee living an unworldly, detached intellectual life, inventing a fantastical alternative world for compensation; but much that was thought to be romance in her work turns out to be reality. 'Real life is so much odder than any book,' she wrote to a friend, and her life was as exciting and improbable as her fiction. Her novels are not just stylised comedies of manners with artificial complications, but reflect passionately lived experience, albeit wonderfully transmuted.

Peter Conradi's biography returns the reader to her best work, through a quest for the living flesh-and-blood creature: the Irishwoman, the Communist-bohemian, the Treasury civil servant, the worker in Austrian refugee-camps, the RCA lecturer during the 1960s, the lifelong devotee of friendship conducted at a distancce and by letter, and the Buddhist-Christian mystic.

It balances the formative years before the creative confusion of youth gave way to a greater stability, with an account of her maturity."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Norton
Language
English
Pages
706

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Cover of: Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch: a life
2001, HarperCollins
in English
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Iris Murdoch: a life
2001, Norton
in English - 1st American ed.
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Iris Murdoch: the saint and the artist
1989, Macmillan Press
in English - 2nd ed.
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Iris Murdoch: the saint and the artist
1986, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Iris Murdoch: the saint and the artist
1986, Macmillan
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 661-676) and index.
Originally published: London : HaprerCollins Publishers, 2001.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914, B
Library of Congress
PR6063.U7 Z629 2001, PR6063.U7Z629 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxix, 706 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
706

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3946685M
Internet Archive
irismurdochlife00conr
ISBN 10
0393048756
LCCN
2001032972
OCLC/WorldCat
46936252
Library Thing
46982
Goodreads
11233

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