by Iris Murdoch · Destino · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423316366
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«Una derrota bastante honrosa» is Iris Murdoch's literary fiction novel, published by Destino in hardcover (464 pages, in Spanish).
Hilda and Rupert Foster are an English middle-class couple preparing to celebrate their twentieth anniversary when the arrival of Morgan, Hilda's younger sister, and the ambiguous Julius interrupts the party. Julius, a character with a Mephistophelian air, devises a game that becomes a cruel experiment for all involved. The novel portrays the fragility of love ties, vanity and the capacity for self-deception of characters who believe they know each other well.
The work, whose original title is «A Fairly Honourable Defeat», falls within contemporary fiction. The edition was published in 1988.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and contemporary classic novels, particularly for those seeking a work by British writer Iris Murdoch.
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".
