'You're sure she doesn't know,' said Georgie.
An edition of Une'Tete Coupee
(1961)
A severed head
a novel.
by Iris Murdoch
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Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.
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A severed head.
1961, Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus
in English
0140020039 9780140020038
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Violence, except on the screen, is always pathetic, ludicrous, and beastly.
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Stood out to me
I am a severed head such as primitive tribes and old alchemists used to use, anointing it with oil and putting a morsel of gold upon its tongue to make it utter prophecies. And who knows but that long acquaintance with a severed head might not lead to strange knowledge.
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