Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 - Brossura

Murdoch, Iris

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ISBN 10: 0099570157 ISBN 13: 9780099570158

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2016

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EDITED BY AVRIL HORNER AND ANNE ROWE

‘Destroy this and all letters. And keep your mouth shut’

This collection of Iris Murdoch’s most interesting and revealing letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and thinkers. The letters show a great mind at work – we see the young Murdoch grappling with philosophical questions, as well as feeling her anguish when a novel obstinately refuses to come together.

They uncover Murdoch’s famed personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its intriguing complexity, and her penchant for living beyond the bounds of social acceptability. We also begin to see the 'real life material' that fed into her fiction, despite her claims that her fiction never drew on reality. Above all we see the accumulation of life – intimate, irreverent, fiercely engaged with the world – in this extraordinary collection of letters.

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Recensione:

"Astonishing" (John Sutherland)

"Deeply impressive" (Guardian)

"Reading these letters is like living Murdoch's whole creatively, sexually and intellectually voracious life alongside her, and at breakneck speed. Thrilling" (Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne)

"The letters themselves have been selected with conviction and care...the overwhelming sense of this volume is one of richness" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Her mind, here as in everything she wrote, is formidable" (New York Times)

"Astonishing epistolary abundance from a woman who meant it when she told a friend that she could "live in letters"... Few books leave the reader with as dizzying sense of the need to question absolutely everything" (Daily Telegraph)

"We find a passionate engagement with the world of ideas, but most of all with friends, lovers, and pupils. These letters reveal Murdoch's extraordinary talent for affection, exuberant sense of fun, razor-sharp intelligence, and acute awareness of the transcendent" (Karen Armstrong)

"Exemplary... The reader grows up and grows old with Murdoch" (Literary Review)

"This collection of letters provides a fascinating insight into the life of a complex and important novelist. It is a wonderful book" (Alexander McCall Smith)

"Murdoch was not writing for posterity; she was writing for her friends, or rather as a way of maintaining her friendships, whether intellectual, passionate or both...the letters reinforce Murdoch's qualities as a person" (Independent)

Descrizione del libro:

Iris Murdoch’s life, in her own words, from her schoolgirl days to her last years

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0099570157
• ISBN 13: 9780099570158
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 688