![]() ![]() After her death, her husband, John Bayley, wrote two books about her, dealing frankly and compassionately with her disease. "I feel as if I'm sailing into darkness," she said, a line used in the movie. Then her final novel arrived, shorter than usual, and at about the same time the dreaded news that she had Alzheimer's. Her novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize and is a good place to start.įor years I looked forward to the annual Murdoch. ![]() ![]() There were also touchstones that her readers looked forward to: a lonely child, a magus, an architectural oddity, an old friendship sorely tested, adulteries and unexpected couplings, intimations of the supernatural, theoretical conversations, ancient feuds. Her novels involved "the unique strangeness of human beings," played against philosophical ideas. She wrote 28 novels (between books, she said, she "took off for about half an hour"). Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most important and prolific British novelists of her century, and wrote and taught philosophy as well. ![]()
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