Lektura zmuszająca uważnego czytelnika do zastanowienia się nad ludzkim życiem, nad dobrem, które drzemie w każdym z nas, nawet jeśli próbuje się nam wmówić - choć naszym zdaniem robimy coś w dobrej wierze - że to, co robimy jest złe. Mówi się, że wiara czyni cuda. Jednak "przynależność" do grupy wi...
”What a stupid coagulated mass of indistinguishable guilt and misery I had become. How perfectly futile all my sufferings had been. If only I could separate out that awful mixture of sin and pain, if I could only even a for a short time, even for a moment, suffer purely without the burden of resentm...
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, published-1978, booker-winner, paper-read, autumn-2011, those-autumn-years, books-about-books-and-book-shops Read from May 27 to September 06, 2011 sic biscuitus disintegrat bwhahaha The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland...
To anyone out there who has picked this up as an introduction to Iris Murdoch, I say prevail...this is only her first novel. Having finished Under the Net and now had a couple of days to think about it, I am glad this is not the first of Iris Murdoch's books I've read - I probably would not h...
Here's the first thing I love about [b:The Sea, The Sea:|11229|The Sea, the Sea|Iris Murdoch|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1302898449s/11229.jpg|1410491] its title. Isn't it wonderful? Imagine how boring it would have looked on a shelf if it had just been called "The Sea." But with that...
One of the best books by one of the best novelists of the 20th century. The story of the heinously bitter and unreliable Bradley Pearson is rich with complexity of character and situation. Between the bitterness and the self-justification, answers to the questions about what really happened" become ...
What a wonderful novel! Such complicated characters living in such a twisted reality yet, amidst all the chaos and damage, one funeral, one accidental death, a myriad of countless betrayals and misunderstands, and you still manage to come away with an incredible calm and peaceful contentment upon f...
Some time ago, in class, one of my two English teachers was talking. I don't usually pay attention to my English teachers - especially because they have nothing interesting to say. So, as per usual, my eyes were on a book, one of my ears was on my colleagues and the other one was spying on the teach...
I tried for almost half the book, but just couldn't get into it. I couldn't figure out when the story was set, didn't warm to any of the characters, and the plot just left me cold. So, I gave up. It's a little disappointing because I loved the other books I read by Iris Murdoch, all of which eit...
A Fairly Honourable Defeat had a great premise. A university professor, Julius, decides to test his friends' relationships by planting ideas and otherwise messing with their lives. He doesn't believe in love or emotional bonds - for him, relationships will always be selfish and one will abandon ones...
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