by Iris Murdoch · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644585
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«El castillo de arena» is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (372 pages, in Spanish).
Professor Bill Mor's routine is broken when he meets Rain Carter, a young artist. An attraction arises between Bill and Rain that strains Mor's marriage and ambitions, confronting him with desires his rationality cannot accept. The novel explores freedom, guilt, and the price of decisions.
The English original, The Sandcastle, was published in 1957; this Spanish edition is a translation of the novel and belongs to the Alianza Literaria collection.
For readers of literary fiction, twentieth-century classics, and British narrative, interested 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".
