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Murdoch Iris
The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core.
Under the Net
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Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookles, and film stariets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man, who makes a living out of translation work and sponging off his friends. However, a meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures.
The Sovereignty of Good
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Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found here.
The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad, and moving novel is about religion, sex, and the fight between good and evil.
The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)
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Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.
The Nice and the Good
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A novel originally published in 1968, revolving around a happily married couple and telling of a violent death, blackmail, suspected espionage, Black Arts, stress and terror, over which love conquers all.
Murdoch Iris News
Midsummer Nights edited by Jeanette Winterson - Times Online
Times Online, UK - May 24, 2009
Midsummer Nights edited by Jeanette WintersonThere is a striking description of opera's capacity to evoke overwhelming emotion in Iris Murdoch's novel The Black Prince. Its middle-aged protagonist is watching a performance of Der Rosenkavalier alongside a much younger woman with whom he has
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Tackling Southern Gothic's Queen
Gay City News - May 14, 2009
Gooch cites "the weird literary battle for Betty's soul" after Hester became a fan of British existentialist writer Iris Murdoch, whom O'Connor blamed for leading her friend away from the Catholic faith, and with whom Hester corresponded until her
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Richard Eyre is back at the National Theatre - Financial Times
Financial Times, UK - May 22, 7083
Financial TimesRichard Eyre is back at the National Theatre“That's one of the reasons I was interested in Iris Murdoch [Eyre directed the film Iris]. She was rare among moral philosophers in being interested in good, rather than evil. It's terribly difficult to write about good – much less alluring and
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Former head discusses Nato future - BBC News
BBC News, UK - May 18, 2009
BBC NewsFormer head discusses Nato future has 28 members including the United Kingdom, USA and Germany. Its most recent members, Croatia and Albania, joined last month. The free public lecture will be held in the Iris Murdoch building at Stirling University from 1700 BST.
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DJ Taylor: In the name of Dodd, go! - Independent
Independent, UK - May 22, 5030
DJ Taylor: In the name of Dodd, go!Quietly encouraged by her interviewer, Matthew Sweet, Dame Antonia was on top form, talked about the history of early Fabianism, the Freudian interpretation of dreams, the nature of childhood, her "Socratic conversations" with Iris Murdoch and a whole
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