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Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)

Autor(a) de The Sea, the Sea

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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 Sea, the Sea (1978) 3,570 exemplares
Under the Net (1954) 2,126 exemplares
The Bell (1958) 2,026 exemplares
A Severed Head (1961) 1,523 exemplares
The Black Prince (1973) 1,492 exemplares
The Unicorn (1963) 936 exemplares
The Nice and the Good (1968) 897 exemplares
A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) 820 exemplares
The Green Knight (1993) 803 exemplares
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) 727 exemplares
The Good Apprentice (1985) 711 exemplares
The Sandcastle (1957) 689 exemplares
The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) 645 exemplares
A Word Child (1975) 630 exemplares
The Italian Girl (1964) 630 exemplares
The Red and the Green (1965) 531 exemplares
Nuns and Soldiers (1980) 529 exemplares
The Sovereignty of Good (1970) 529 exemplares
Bruno's Dream (1969) 521 exemplares
The Flight from the Enchanter (1956) 509 exemplares
The Message to the Planet (1989) 485 exemplares
An Unofficial Rose (1962) 482 exemplares
Henry and Cato (1976) 470 exemplares
Jackson's Dilemma (1995) 465 exemplares
An Accidental Man (1971) 463 exemplares
The Time of the Angels (1966) 378 exemplares
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) 238 exemplares
Something Special: A Story (1957) 159 exemplares
Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986) 143 exemplares
Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide (2004) 13 exemplares
A year of birds : poems (1978) 8 exemplares
O Sino 4 exemplares
Canterburyjske priče 4 exemplares
Die Souveränität des Guten (2023) 3 exemplares
Una cabeza cercenada (2023) 1 exemplar
Henry e Cato 1 exemplar
İTALYAN KIZI 1 exemplar
Unicórnio 1 exemplar
Hver tar sin 1 exemplar
The Nature of Metaphysics (1960) 1 exemplar
Çan 1 exemplar
Against Dryness 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contribuidor — 149 exemplares
Virtue Ethics (1997) — Contribuidor — 129 exemplares
Granta 111: Going Back (2010) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
Iris Murdoch, Philosopher (2011) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Plays of the Sixties, Volume 2 (1967) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Plato on Art and Beauty (Philosophers in Depth) (2012) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
O'r pedwar gwynt, Gaeaf 2019 (2019) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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

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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.

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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)

Críticas

Iris Murdoch takes you into the religious world of Imber Abbey, a cloistered community of nuns. This devout group is about to receive a long awaited bell to replace one lost to magic and mystery. The Bell's plot focuses on a cast of damaged people living outside Imber Abbey: Paul Greenfield, there to translate fourteenth century manuscripts; his wife Dora, there because she feels obligated to stay in a loveless marriage; Michael, the leader of the lay community; Tobey, a curious man about to attend Oxford; Catherine, a beautiful woman about to entire Imber Abbey; her twin brother, Nick, there to be close to her one last time; and the old Abbess, the wise and all-seeing head of Imber Abbey.
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.
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SeriousGrace | 47 outras críticas | Jan 30, 2024 |
The world is a strange and beautiful and frightening and tragic and painful and unknown and banal and crowded place. There are old friends and enemies, unfamiliar new places, angry scenes and everyday meals. There is the weather. And also seals and sea monsters (maybe), and deaths, kidnapping and attempted murders (maybe). And love and desire too, of course, but often mixed with misunderstanding, jealousy, obsession and dependency in complicated combinations.

All of that is to say that 'The Sea, The Sea' represents all of the above in a story bordering on the quixotic and surreal in places, but is shot through with enough of the quotidian to keep it from slipping entirely into magical realism.

The writing seems effortless, the pages practically turn themselves, even in the first quarter or so of the book when nothing much seems to happen - as you would expect in a tiny coastal village - where the protagonist and narrator, a newly retired theatre director, tries to escape from his previous life. A revolving door cast of characters from that life then intrude, and the tone eventually becomes more frenetic, chaotic and eventually darker - even 'mad' - as our unreliable narrator falls into a whirlpool of his own fantasies and the unclear motives of others. Tragedy, reconciliations and betrayals bring the curtain down eventually, and the end peters out ambiguously.

Just like life. Brilliant.
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breathslow | 93 outras críticas | Jan 27, 2024 |
One of the Murdoch novels that I have enjoyed the most. One reason is the manageable number of characters. Another is the theme which Murdoch pursued through many novels, the nature of goodness. What especially happens when goodness is expected to exist in a world in which God has been left behind?
Disaster ensues when Carel, the priest who has lost his faith and has been shunted to a parish without a church, disintegrates mentally, morally and fatally, bringing down all those around him. They are left with remnant lives from which some form of reconstruction may be possible.
Fascinating writer of books that make a reader eager for another of her novels.
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ivanfranko | 9 outras críticas | Jan 21, 2024 |
As usual a cast of dreadful people fall in and out of love with each other and ludicrous situations ensue. Its really enjoyable to read, but has a completely mad ending.
 
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AlisonSakai | 12 outras críticas | Dec 16, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
84
Also by
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Membros
26,055
Popularidade
#799
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
559
ISBN
691
Línguas
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Marcado como favorito
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