![]() ![]() ![]() The first page of "The Sea, the Sea" announces an unusual project: learning to be good, after a life of egoism, art and power. (The demons are man-made: "We are all potentially demons to each other," writes Charles Arrowby, the narrator of "The Sea, the Sea," after 495 Into bizarrerie, epiphanies of the spiritual and invasions of the demonic. Her stories, including this one,Īre marked by an uncommon variety and complication of incident the reader is continually surprised and shocked by the abrupt appearances, disappearances and reappearances of characters, unexpected couplings and uncouplings, sudden shifts Yet her novels have a lot of flash - thanks to her quite remarkable powers of invention. Intelligence, a philosophically educated, uninfatuated English moral intelligence with nothing flashy about it. Her work keeps its interest, I think, because of its His is Iris Murdoch's 19th novel, unusual I'm sure for a serious writer today. ![]()
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