A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45 - Rilegato

Conradi, Peter; Conradi, Peter J.

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ISBN 10: 1906021228 ISBN 13: 9781906021221

Casa editrice: Short Books Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

These never-before published diaries and letters will be a MUST for every Iris Murdoch fan...These collected writings, never published before, comprise a diary which Iris Murdoch kept in her last summer at Oxford, immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, and her wartime correspondence with two men: the poet Frank Thomson, murdered in Bulgaria in 1944, and a teacher for the British Council, David Hicks. They reveal the young writer at her sprightly, original best - as gripped by her own affairs, and those of her friends and peers, as by the great affairs of the world; exuberant when in love, and yet remarkably philosophical even when love goes painfully wrong. Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a treasury of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century - a fascinating private memoir which sheds new light on a brilliant mind in development, but also a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War.

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Recensione:

Exhilarating and enchanting, bursting with insights and observations... I put the book down in sweet reflection that nothing in life is more beautiful than love's young dream. --Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph

Nevertheless, it's a sign of Conradi's tact that, even after his access to her journals and his dogged disinterring of ancient lovers, he allows Iris to remain mysterious, or at least insolubly contradictory, her warring motives masked by that ambiguous Gioconda smile. --The Guardian

Excellent --The Scotsman

L'autore:

Peter J. Conradi is the author of Iris Murdoch: A Life, the critically lauded biography of Iris Murdoch. He has written a number of other non fiction books, including At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral (Seren 2009) and Going Buddhist, which was published by Short Books in 2004.

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• Editore: Short Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906021228
• ISBN 13: 9781906021221
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256