by Iris Murdoch · Contact · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789025495640
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«De leertijd» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Contact in paperback (474 pages, in Dutch).
A man is about to sink under guilt after the death of a friend, while his fanatical stepbrother tries to make him see things differently. The novel explores the tension between them and the possibility of redemption, in a literary and philosophical tone characteristic of Iris Murdoch.
The Good Apprentice (1985) is the original title of this work; the translation published in 1999 was done by Heleen ten Holt.
For readers of psychological fiction and twentieth-century British literature, with an interest in moral dilemmas.
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".
