Have to dig and drill deeper into this one.One of the characters is the closest model to Beckett's "Lucky" I've ever found in a novel. The beginning set in grim Newhaven - a place I somewhat know and definitely despise - got me, but the rest of the story didn't so far.
"An Accidental Man" is the first book I've read by Iris Murdoch, and it exceeded my expectations enormously. The plot by itself was structured well, but I think the most impressive aspect of this novel was the character development. In less than four hundred pages, Murdoch involves a wide "menagerie...
I loved the wet, grey and gloomy London atmosphere. The melancholic British weather was in unison with the desperation of Murdoch's characters. The author painted a world of boredom and guilt, where flirting and drugs were a mere means to an end for people to make life more tolerable. An interesting...
i have an iris murdoch headache. she made me cry like she always does, and i feel vaguely like i've just eaten a huge piece of blue cheesecake, heavy and hypnotic in its dense richness, dotted with sour bits, not too sweet. her people are very real and audacious. they are crazy and they are convinci...
I should've thought about the reading the book more seriously. I've read that it's about an egoistic but I didn't realise that he is such a manipulative egoistical deluded bastard who's going through a mid-life crisis. Definitely was not a fun read although, because it was told from his POV, there...
I knew Iris Murdoch was a writed with phenomenal power in explaining and expressing human typology. I had, though, no idea her books could be so powerful."The Philosopher's Pupil" surprised me in many ways, but the best thing about it were by far the characters. Usually, my rating for a book is by h...
I just looked it up in our wonderful Wikipaedia and found that Iris Murdoch wrote 27 novels, the rest of her writings philosophy, plays and poetry. I haven't read them all, but by comparison The Sacred and Profane Love Machine stands out from the rest which is also excellent, of course. Well, what c...
sic biscuitus disintegrat The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine.Page 6 - A Martello TowerThat ending is pretty naff so not technically the best Murdoch but the most enduring memory-wise. She did cram the pages with the usual large cast of total...
A much paler novel than Murdoch can be at her best (as in The sea, the sea). The characters seemed to be inhabiting some earlier decade and I'm ultimately as confused as the character Clement as to how far the comparisons go to the resetting of the legend of Gawain and the Green Knight. The mysterio...
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