Iris Murdoch at 100: ‘Her books are full of passion and disaster’

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Love, sadness, fear, lust, power ... Murdoch’s strange, radical novels seethe with emotion. On her centenary, they are inspiring a new generation of authors

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Do Iris Murdoch’s novels still matter to people? Or, after the high-water mark of her Booker-winning 1978 novel, The Sea, The Sea, and a late period of longer, more philosophically abstruse books, did her work collapse into her biography – the jumble of love affairs, absurdly messy kitchens and Alzheimer’s disease that were dramatised by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in the 2001 film of her life? And, once the attention paid to her life had abated, had contemporary fiction simply moved...

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The inconvenience of the humane terrain in its most poetic accuracy ..💙

The great Iris Murdoch! Under appreciated... A Fairly Honorable Defeat is such a masterpiece!

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