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Living on Paper : Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 /

Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice--her life in her own words. Living on Paper--the first major collection of Murdoch&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Murdoch, Iris (Autor)
Otros Autores: Rowe, Anne, 1952- (Editor ), Horner, Avril (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t CONTENTS --  |t List of Illustrations --  |t Introduction --  |t PART ONE: Schoolgirl and Student: August 1934 to December 1941 --  |t PART TWO: Work and War: July 1942 to October 1947 --  |t PART THREE: Academic and Author: October 1947 to September 1954 --  |t PART FOUR: Decisions: February 1955 to December 1962 --  |t PART FIVE: The RCA Years: January 1963 to November 1967 --  |t PART SIX: Woman of Letters: January 1968 to December 1978 --  |t PART SEVEN: Dame Iris: January 1979 to December 1989 --  |t PART EIGHT: Last Letters: February 1990 to September 1995 --  |t Directory of Names and Terms --  |t Murdoch's Novels and Their Dedicatees --  |t Sources of Letters --  |t Abbreviations --  |t Notes --  |t Acknowledgements --  |t Index. 
520 |a Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice--her life in her own words. Living on Paper--the first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and interesting personal letters--gives, for the first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. The result is the most important book about Murdoch in more than a decade. The letters show a great mind at work--struggling with philosophical problems, trying to bring a difficult novel together, exploring spirituality, and responding pointedly to world events. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity, especially in letters to lovers or close friends, such as the writers Brigid Brophy, Elias Canetti, and Raymond Queneau, philosophers Michael Oakeshott and Philippa Foot, and mathematician Georg Kreisel. We witness Murdoch's emotional hunger, her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable, and her irreverence and sharp sense of humor. We also learn how her private life fed into the plots and characters of her novels, despite her claims that they were not drawn from reality. Direct and intimate, these letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person, making for an extraordinary reading experience. 
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