Iris Murdoch as I Knew HerA brilliant, controversial and insightful biography from the author of the universally acclaimedThe Victorians. A.N. Wilson’s tutor at Oxford was John Bayley, and it was there that Wilson met Irish Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both, and it was at Iris’s pleading in 1988 that he agreed to write her biography. The biography was bound to be controversial, and Wilson pulls no punches in his attack on Bayley’s own book on Iris and the portrayal of her as an Alzheimer’s victim. Instead, he gives us back the fiercely intelligent novelist and philosopher, and shows us a relationship that was deeply loving yet profoundly eccentric, and very unconventional for its day. |
Contents
The film | 5 |
met them | 12 |
want you to write my biography | 27 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actually affair appeared asked Bayleys became become began believe biography called Canetti certainly characters child Christianity Church College coming conversation course dear describe early English existentialist experience eyes face fact feel felt fiction figure followed friends given giving head human idea IM's imagination interest Iris Murdoch Irish JOB's John kind knew later Lectures less letter lives London looked lunch married matter mean meet mind moral moved never novelist novels once Oxford parents party perhaps person philosophical Plato priest published question religious remarked seemed seen sense sort speak story suggested sure talk tell things thought tion told took true truth turned University whole wife woman women write written wrote young