/A Fairly Honourable Defeat /is listed in the Wikipedia article, just
overlooked in my email note. Wikipedia doesn't have this novel listed
among her best (assuming the interpretation from my previous note). I
looked for a review and found
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/20/specials/murdoch-defeat.html
I can see why it might not be considered one of her best, but it
certainly seems a challenging project.
Taking Mr Rabinovitz* review, and adding something I read elsewhere
(can't remember where) wherein Murdoch stated that she outlined her
novels elaborately before she began, and that she didn't expect the the
aid of her Muse until she began the actual writing, then Mr Rabinovitz
may be justified in his suggestion that Murdoch is taking up the Job
theme in his novel. This may not be one I'll want to tackle however.
/*Mr. Rabinovitz teaches English at Columbia and is the author of "The
Reaction Against Experiment in the English Novel, 1950-1960" and "Iris
Murdoch."/
Lawrence
On 2/19/2021 1:56 AM, epostboxx@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 18. Feb 2021, at 16:24, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does any Iris Murdoch reader believe that any of her other novels are as goodA FAIRLY HONOURABLE DEFEAT is not on the list. It was the first of hers that I
as the ones Wikipedia lists above?
read that literally helped me shape my 'persona' (as much as such a thing is
possible - about which more later).
Chris Bruce,
feeling he's being drawn out from
behind the mask [persona], in
Kiel Germany
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