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by Iris Murdoch · Destino · tapa dura · 464 pages
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Una derrota bastante honrosa es una novela de la aclamada autora Iris Murdoch. La historia se centra en Hilda y Rupert Foster, un matrimonio inglés de clase media que se enfrenta a la fragilidad de los lazos amorosos y las complejidades del autoengaño. Su aniversario de bodas se ve interrumpido por la llegada de la hermana de Hilda, Morgan, y el ambiguo Julius, quienes desencadenan una serie de eventos que ponen a prueba la estabilidad de todos los involucrados. La novela explora temas de amor, vanidad y las consecuencias de las decisiones humanas.
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".
