by Iris Murdoch · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426405753
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Iris Murdoch's masterpiece, winner of the Booker Prize in 1978, introduces us to Charles Arrowby, a playwright and theater director who decides to retire to a remote corner of the British coast to write his memoirs. In his retreat, Charles confronts his obsessions, the ghosts of his mistakes, and the anguish of an uncertain future, while trying to relive an old love affair. Murdoch's hypnotic prose envelops the reader in a torrent of images, stories, and reflections that resonate like the murmur of the waves at dusk. An essential novel that explores universal themes such as love, art, and human vulnerability.
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".
