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"Astonishing" (John Sutherland)
"Deeply impressive" (Guardian)
"Reading these letters is like living Murdoch's whole creatively, sexually and intellectually voracious life alongside her, and at breakneck speed. Thrilling" (Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne)
"The letters themselves have been selected with conviction and care...the overwhelming sense of this volume is one of richness" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Her mind, here as in everything she wrote, is formidable" (New York Times)
"Astonishing epistolary abundance from a woman who meant it when she told a friend that she could "live in letters"... Few books leave the reader with as dizzying sense of the need to question absolutely everything" (Daily Telegraph)
"We find a passionate engagement with the world of ideas, but most of all with friends, lovers, and pupils. These letters reveal Murdoch's extraordinary talent for affection, exuberant sense of fun, razor-sharp intelligence, and acute awareness of the transcendent" (Karen Armstrong)
"Exemplary... The reader grows up and grows old with Murdoch" (Literary Review)
"This collection of letters provides a fascinating insight into the life of a complex and important novelist. It is a wonderful book" (Alexander McCall Smith)
"Murdoch was not writing for posterity; she was writing for her friends, or rather as a way of maintaining her friendships, whether intellectual, passionate or both...the letters reinforce Murdoch's qualities as a person" (Independent)
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"Deeply impressive" (Guardian)
"Reading these letters is like living Murdoch's whole creatively, sexually and intellectually voracious life alongside her, and at breakneck speed. Thrilling" (Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne)
"The letters themselves have been selected with conviction and care...the overwhelming sense of this volume is one of richness" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Her mind, here as in everything she wrote, is formidable" (New York Times)
"Astonishing epistolary abundance from a woman who meant it when she told a friend that she could "live in letters"... Few books leave the reader with as dizzying sense of the need to question absolutely everything" (Daily Telegraph)
"We find a passionate engagement with the world of ideas, but most of all with friends, lovers, and pupils. These letters reveal Murdoch's extraordinary talent for affection, exuberant sense of fun, razor-sharp intelligence, and acute awareness of the transcendent" (Karen Armstrong)
"Exemplary... The reader grows up and grows old with Murdoch" (Literary Review)
"This collection of letters provides a fascinating insight into the life of a complex and important novelist. It is a wonderful book" (Alexander McCall Smith)
"Murdoch was not writing for posterity; she was writing for her friends, or rather as a way of maintaining her friendships, whether intellectual, passionate or both...the letters reinforce Murdoch's qualities as a person" (Independent)
‘Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real’
This selection of Iris Murdoch’s most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words, from her schoolgirl days to her last years.
The letters show a great mind at work – we watch the young Murdoch struggling with philosophical issues, often unsure of herself; witness her anguish when a novel won’t come together; observe her involved in world events and exploring sensuality. They are full of sharp humour and irreverence. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its intriguing complexity: her emotional hunger and her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable. Gradually, we see how this fed into her novels’ plots and characters, despite her claims that her fiction was not drawn from reality.
Quite apart from giving these valuable insights, her letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person. They make for an extraordinary and intimate reading experience: she is wonderful company.
This selection of Iris Murdoch’s most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words, from her schoolgirl days to her last years.
The letters show a great mind at work – we watch the young Murdoch struggling with philosophical issues, often unsure of herself; witness her anguish when a novel won’t come together; observe her involved in world events and exploring sensuality. They are full of sharp humour and irreverence. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its intriguing complexity: her emotional hunger and her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable. Gradually, we see how this fed into her novels’ plots and characters, despite her claims that her fiction was not drawn from reality.
Quite apart from giving these valuable insights, her letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person. They make for an extraordinary and intimate reading experience: she is wonderful company.
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- VerlagChatto & Windus
- Erscheinungsdatum2015
- ISBN 10 0701187050
- ISBN 13 9780701187057
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten688
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: New. The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch (1919?1999) would spend up to four hours a day on her correspondence, writing to friends, lovers, students, fans and even casual acquaintances. This selection of her letters, edited and introduced by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, gives a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life lived to capacity and marked by numerous emotional imbroglios and intense friendships with fellow philosopher Philippa Foot and novelist Brigid Brophy, alongside a long and stable marriage to John Bayley. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 225829
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