by Iris Murdoch · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423972876
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«Bajo la red» is Iris Murdoch's first novel, published by Espasa Calpe in the Austral collection, in paperback (326 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows a writer who earns his living in London with translations. The reunion with an old friend he believes he has betrayed alters his routine and triggers a series of situations that force him to revisit his past and his personal ties.
Originally published in English in 1954 as «Under the Net», this Spanish edition features a translation by Barbara McShane and Javier Alfaya and a prologue by Alfaya.
For reading clubs and for readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century British classics.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
