Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)
Autor(a) de The Sea, the Sea
About the Author
Iris Murdoch was one of the twentieth century's most prominent novelists, winner of the Booker Prize for The Sea. She died in 1999. (Publisher Provided) Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 15, 1919. She was educated at Badminton School in Bristol and Oxford University, where she read mostrar mais classics, ancient history, and philosophy. After several government jobs, she returned to academic life, studying philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948, she became a fellow and tutor at St. Anne's College, Oxford. She also taught at the Royal College of Art in London. A professional philosopher, she began writing novels as a hobby, but quickly established herself as a genuine literary talent. She wrote over 25 novels during her lifetime including Under the Net, A Severed Head, The Unicorn, and Of the Nice and the Good. She won several awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince in 1973 and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea in 1978. She died on February 8, 1999 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Iris Murdoch
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists. Based upon the Romanes Lecture (Oxford Paperbacks) (1977) 117 exemplares
The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Two: The Flight from the Enchanter, The Red and the Green, and The Time of the Angels (2018) 9 exemplares
The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume One: Henry and Cato, The Italian Girl, and The Philosopher's Pupil (2018) 9 exemplares
La salvación por las palabras : ¿puede la literatura curarnos de los males de la filosofía? (2014) 6 exemplares
The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Three: A Word Child, An Unofficial Rose, and Bruno's Dream (2018) 6 exemplares
O Sino 4 exemplares
Canterburyjske priče 4 exemplares
Hoe bewijs ik het bestaan van God 2 exemplares
Vintage Classics Collection 3 Books Set, (The Bell, Under the Net and The Sea, The Sea) 2 exemplares
THE SUBLIME AND THE GOOD - essay in one complete issue of Chicago Review, Autumn 1959 (1959) 1 exemplar
Ο Μαύρος Πρίγκηπας 1 exemplar
Een filosofie van de liefde 1 exemplar
Henry e Cato 1 exemplar
Przypadkowy cz¿owiek 1 exemplar
Existentialists and mystics : 1 exemplar
Sartre'ın Yazarlığı ve Felsefesi 1 exemplar
İTALYAN KIZI 1 exemplar
Unicórnio 1 exemplar
[Notebook : 34 pages occupied with lists of words in Russian with their English translations] 1 exemplar
Hver tar sin 1 exemplar
Tilfælghedens spil 1 exemplar
[Make a joyful noise Vol. 2] 1 exemplar
[Make a joyful noise Vol. 1] 1 exemplar
Çan 1 exemplar
Murdoch, Iris Archive 1 exemplar
Against Dryness 1 exemplar
Os Olhos da Aranha Livro 1 1 exemplar
Сочинения в 3-Х томах 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics Series) (1997) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Murdoch, Jean Iris
- Outros nomes
- Murdoch, Jean Iris
- Data de nascimento
- 1919-07-15
- Data de falecimento
- 1999-02-08
- Localização do túmulo
- Ashes scattered in the garden of Oxford Crematorium
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Ierland
- Local de nascimento
- Dublin, Ireland
- Local de falecimento
- Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- Alzheimer's disease
- Locais de residência
- Dublin, Ierland
Oxford, Engeland - Educação
- Somerville College, Oxford
- Ocupações
- novelist
philosopher - Relações
- Bayley, John (husband)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature | 1975)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member | 1982)
St Anne's College, Oxford University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Booker Prize (1978)
- Agente
- Ed Victor
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland, the only child of an Anglo-Irish family. When she was a baby, the family moved to London, where her father worked as a civil servant. She attended the Badminton School as a boarder from 1932 to 1938. In 1938, she enrolled at Oxford University, where she read Classics. She graduated with a First Class Honors degree in 1942 and got a job with the Treasury. In 1944, she joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), working in Brussels, Innsbruck, and Graz for two years. She then returned to her studies and became a postgraduate at Cambridge University. In 1948, she became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she taught philosophy until 1963. In 1956, she married John Bayley, a literary critic, novelist, and English professor at Oxford. She published her debut novel, Under the Net, in 1954 and went on to produce 25 more novels and additional acclaimed works of philosophy, poetry and drama. She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982, and named a Dame Commander of Order of the British Empire in 1987. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1997 and died two years later.
Membros
Discussions
Group Read, June 2022: The Sea, the Sea em 1001 Books to read before you die (Julho 2022)
Group Read, July 2018: Under The Net em 1001 Books to read before you die (Julho 2018)
The Bell em Iris Murdoch readers (Fevereiro 2018)
Musing on Murdoch in General em Iris Murdoch readers (Outubro 2017)
The Nice and the Good em Iris Murdoch readers (Fevereiro 2017)
The Italian Girl em Iris Murdoch readers (Novembro 2015)
The Sea, the Sea em Iris Murdoch readers (Setembro 2015)
The Sandcastle em Iris Murdoch readers (Janeiro 2015)
The Green Knight em Iris Murdoch readers (Maio 2014)
The Unicorn em Iris Murdoch readers (Fevereiro 2014)
***Group Read, October 2013: The Bell by Iris Murdoch em 1001 Books to read before you die (Outubro 2013)
The Book and the Brotherhood em Iris Murdoch readers (Outubro 2013)
A Severed Head em Iris Murdoch readers (Maio 2013)
The Black Prince em Iris Murdoch readers (Maio 2013)
The Philosopher's Pupil em Iris Murdoch readers (Abril 2013)
The Good Apprentice em Iris Murdoch readers (Março 2013)
Something Special em Iris Murdoch readers (Março 2013)
Henry and Cato em Iris Murdoch readers (Fevereiro 2013)
A Word Child em Iris Murdoch readers (Fevereiro 2013)
Bruno's Dream em Iris Murdoch readers (Fevereiro 2013)
An Unofficial Rose em Iris Murdoch readers (Fevereiro 2013)
Henry Cato em Iris Murdoch readers (Janeiro 2013)
Murdoch & Mayhem em 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Dezembro 2012)
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Big Jubilee List (1)
Nifty Fifties (1)
1970s (1)
Unread books (1)
5 Best 5 Years (1)
Franklit (1)
Folio Society (1)
Booker Prize (7)
Revolutions (1)
Art of Reading (2)
Didactic Fiction (2)
Female Author (3)
Read This Next (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Best Beach Reads (1)
Summer Books (1)
1950s (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 84
- Also by
- 10
- Membros
- 26,055
- Popularidade
- #799
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 559
- ISBN
- 691
- Línguas
- 26
- Marcado como favorito
- 138
Lurking in the background of The Bell is the legend of the original bell named Gabriel. The story goes, as Paul relayed to Dora, a fourteenth century nun was supposedly having an illicit affair but could not and would not confess to it. Because he could not punish the singular guilty woman, the Bishop cursed the entire abbey, causing the tower bell, the aforementioned Gabriel, to catapult itself (himself?) into a nearby lake. The guilty nun was so distraught by this phenomenon she was rumored to have drowned herself in the selfsame lake. When Gabriel unexpectedly resurfaces, with the help of Dora and Tobey, each character wonders what it could mean to Imber Abbey and to themselves.
Confessional: The character of Dora confused me almost as much as she confused herself. I wasn't even sure I liked her. Extremely immature, she would make up her mind to not do something but then go ahead and the thing anyway (not buy multicolored skirts, sandals and jazz records, not go back to Paul, the abusive husband; not give up her seat on the train. I could go on). There is a dazed and confused ignorance to her personality that I found either charming or annoying, depending on the minute. Dora is described as an "erring" wife, but how errant can she with an abusive ogre of a husband? He is condescending and cruel, telling her she is not his woman of choice.… (mais)