by Iris Murdoch · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408462286
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«Una derrota bastante honrosa» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Planeta in hardcover (436 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate the fragility of human loyalty through a plan of manipulation. His game tests couples, friends and siblings, and triggers a dark comedy of errors in which the craving for drama and the lack of open communication end up governing relationships.
Originally published in English as «A Fairly Honourable Defeat», it is part of Planeta's Clásicos Contemporáneos Internacionales collection.
For readers of literary fiction and character-driven novels; also for those seeking a representative work of twentieth-century British narrative.
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".
