by Iris Murdoch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586044292
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«The Flight from the Enchanter» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Triad/Panther in paperback (284 pages, in English).
A group of people falls under the influence of Mischa Fox, an enigmatic and wealthy man to whom almost mystical powers are attributed. Annette flees her boarding school, Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers, and Peter pursues an ancient illegible manuscript, in a story about charm and the struggle between common sense and fascination.
The novel originally appeared in 1956 in London, published by Chatto and Windus; this edition is from 1983.
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century British classics, with ambiguous characters and enigmatic atmospheres.
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".
