by Iris Murdoch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070744947
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«Le dilemme de Jackson» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Gallimard in paperback (359 pages, in French).
Benet, a wealthy retiree, prepares Marian's wedding to his attractive neighbour Edward. When Marian announces by letter that she cannot marry and disappears, the plot becomes a psychological thriller. The real drama is the dark relationship between Benet and his enigmatic valet Jackson, whose origins no one knows.
This French edition was published in 2001 in the Du monde entier collection. The original work, Jackson's Dilemma, appeared in 1995.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary British narrative who enjoy stories of psychological intrigue and philosophical depth.
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".
