Obituary: Dame Iris Murdoch

The Independent - London | February 10, 1999| | Copyright

IRIS MURDOCH was a national institution. Her name has entered the language in adjectival form, as have those of Proust, Kafka and Pinter - once you embark upon reading a Murdoch novel you are caught up in a whole world, a world whose chief characteristic is hordes of characters, each of whom seems to be in love with more than one of the others, and to do improbable things that seem startlingly apposite. There are dark aspects to the Murdochian universe: adultery, incest, erotic follies, betrayal, deception, religious anguish, guilt and even murder, are part of her stories, but these are ...

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