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Esistenzialisti e mistici. Scritti di filosofia e letteratura

1. Iris Murdoch

The Sea, the Sea

Winner of the Booker Prize "Profound and delicious for many reasons . . . A multilayered working out of her feelings about the intensity of romantic experience . . . [It] also happens to be intelligently and sympathetically concerned with four of my favorite things: swimming, eating, drinking and talking. . . . It is an ideal beach book—especially if you enjoy the cooler and pebblier and spookier northern sort of beach." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times "A powerful novel about the dismantling of ego, the truth of love—I’m in awe of Murdoch’s genius." —Kate Christensen, The New York Times Book Review"A joy to read: a rollicking story that seems endlessly to be building towards some awful, hilarious, frightening conclusion." —Harper’s Bazaar"Sublime [and] profound . . . She takes great care to imbue the house, the sea, the surroundings—everything—with depth and significance. . . . Exhilarating." —Sam Jordison, The Guardian"This comedy is lit with the aplomb of true comedy’s calm understanding of moral obliquity. . . . There is the genuine weight of obsession in Arrowby’s narrative, but also the mere weight of iteration and ingenuity." —Martin Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review "Murdoch's subtly, blackly humorous digs at human vanity and self-delusion periodically build into waves of hilarity, and Arrowby is a brilliant creation: a deeply textured, intriguing yet unreliable narrator, and one of the finest character studies of the 20th century." —Sophia Martelli, The Guardian"The author renders her immorality play with painstaking attention to atmosphere: the changing hues of the waves, the slippery amber rocks, the strangely damp house are all made palpable. The old scandals are shrewdly reexamined, and Murdoch's style is as saline as the sea below." —Time"One of the best and most influential writers of the 20th century . . . She connected goodness, against the temper of the times, not with the quest for an authentic identity so much as with the happiness that can come about when that quest can be relaxed." —Peter Conradi, The Guardian

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A Severed Head

Comic complications ensue when an intruder unleashes the primitive passions long subdued by London intellectuals who play at the conventions of love set by a society devoid of emotion.

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Under the Net

"Murdoch, a philosophy don at Oxford, was that rarity, a philosophical novelist who could create real characters, not premises with names attached . . . Right out of the gate she displayed all her sinuous gifts—her questing mind, her comic skepticism, her wildly entangled plots." —Time, "All-Time 100 Novels" "Under the Net announces the emergence of a brilliant talent." —The Times Literary Supplement"Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable—behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist." —The Sunday Times"A dazzling story, light and comic in touch." —The Times (London)“As gorgeous and as strange as I remembered . . . I first read Under the Net more than 20 years ago. Iris Murdoch’s novels had enthralled me back then and I had greedily devoured her works. They have a particular appeal to young adults, speaking as they do of the glamorous mysteries of adults who seem to feel as deeply as teenagers, yet drink cocktails and have oodles of sex. . . . The novel thrums with a sense of possibility. . . . Murdoch’s gift for unusual yet precise descriptions of character is displayed in full. . . . Many of her most distinctive traits are present here in full-throated form. There are dazzling, phantasmagorical scenes . . . philosophical dialogues and a powerful enchanter figure. . . . The novel reads more freshly, energetically and involvingly than a great deal of 21st-century literary fiction. Murdoch achieves a rare thing: you want to be with her characters in all their glorious mayhem and to see the world as they do. When it appeared it must have shone in the gloom like a burst of crazy sunlight. Even today it has lost none of its manic, magical brilliance.” —Philip Womack, The Times (London)

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Existentialists and Mystics

Gathered together in this volume are some of Iris Murdoch's most influential writings. They include major critiques of existentialism, essays such as "The Sublime and the Good", Platonic dialogues, and analyses of key literary and philosophical figures such as T.S.Eliot and Sartre.

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Oldukca Onurlu Bir Yenilgi

Iris Murdoch meshur kara komedisi Oldukca Onurlu Bir Yenilgide her türlü insan iliskisinin ne denli pamuk ipligine bagli oldugunu, cok saglam ve uyumlu addedilen iliskilerin bile akillica bir manipülasyonla yerle bir edilebilecegini gözler önüne seriyor. Romanin merkezinde yer alan Julius King, alayci bir entelektüel ve basarili bir bilim insanidir. Seytani bir karakteri vardir. Yakin cevresindeki bir grup insanin birbirlerine ne derece sadik olduklarini göstermek adina kendi tabiriyle bir kukla oyununa girisir. Yaptigi zekice hamlelerle karakterlerin tam da onlardan bekledigi gibi davrandiklarini görür. Öngörülemeyen birtakim aksiliklerin ortaya cikmasiyla finalde trajedi kacinilmaz olur. Ancak trajedinin asil sebebi söylemdeki ahlakin eylemdeki ahlakla örtüsmemesidir.Ask, evlilik, sadakat, iyilik, kötülük gibi temalarin ve ahlak kavraminin masaya yatirildigi bu eglenceli roman, zengin diyaloglari ve escinsel karakterleriyle de öne cikiyor.