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A brilliant but deeply flawed man struggles to earn absolution Hilary Burde was a rising star in academia until a tragic accident plunged him and his mentor and rival, Gunnar Jopling, into two decades of depression and guilt. Hilary, unable to overcome his pain, abandoned his promising career for an unfulfilling job as a civil servant. But at age forty-one, Hilary crosses paths again with Gunnar-initiating a series of events that will change t...

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookles, and film stariets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man, who makes a living out of translation work and sponging off his friends. However, a meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures.

Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and--for the spectators at any rate--a morality play, rich in reflections upon the paradoxes of human life and the nature of the battle between sacred and profane love.

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In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulänglichkeiten der analytischen Moralphilosophie und fordert einen Richtungswechsel. Wir können Moral nicht verstehen, wenn wir uns rein auf naturwissenschaftliche und sprachphilosophische Methoden beschränken. In Auseinandersetzung mit Wittgenstein, Kant, Sartre, Weil oder Platon argumentiert Murdoch, dass...

På det engelske gods Imber Court lever en gruppe mennesker sammen til trods for deres vidt forskellige væsener. Alle har de hver deres bagage at bære rundt på og hver deres historie fyldt med nederlag, sorger og konflikter. Derfor har de installeret sig i dette ingenmandsland, hvor omverdenen ikke kan nå dem. Denne illusion bliver dog brudt, da to udefrakommende en dag besøger området og får rusket op i den kunstige tilværelse, som de mange be...

William Mor er lærer på en kostskole for drenge i nærheden af London. Han er gift, har to halvvoksne børn og er godt tilfreds med sit arbejde. Alligevel plages han af en længsel efter at udleve sin drøm om en karriere i politik, noget hans kone langt fra er glad for. Derfor bliver det ved tanken, lige indtil den unge kunstner, Rain Carter, kommer til skolen for at male et portræt af skolens rektor. Rain og William forelsker sig hovedkulds i hi...

En romantisk og humoristisk spændingsroman om opklaringen af et mord på et engelsk landsted. Her bliver bogens hovedperson, Gray Octavian, hvirvlet ind i de lokales mystiske - ja, næsten magiske - liv og kærlighedsforhold. -

Embedsmanden Hilary Burde begik i sine yngre dage en katastrofal fejltagelse, som har plaget ham lige siden. Derfor tager han med kyshånd imod chancen for at rette op på sine handlinger og råde bod på sin fortid, da han 20 år senere igen møder den mand, han gjorde uret. Før Hilary ved af det, har han dog forelsket sig i mandens hustru - og Hilarys soning har pludselig meget komplicerede og lange udsigter. -

Former tax inspector Bradley Pearson is a writer who has published nothing - his precept is perfect, his maxim is to wait - unlike his best friend Arnold Baffin who is a prolific, highly-successful writer of second-rate novels. Now Bradley is to retire to his seaside cottage to write his masterpiece. In a series of smartly comic scenes, his departure is thwarted by a succesision of unwelcome visitors and crises: a wheedling ex-brother-in-law, ...

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made...

Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job.

Edmund Narraway, annesinin ölümünün ardindan yillar sonra cocukluk evine döner. Ancak bu ziyaretin mutlulugu uzun sürmez, ailesinden uzakta yalniz bir hayati secmesine neden olan gerginlikler yavas yavas su yüzüne cikmaya baslar. Olaylarin perdesi aralandikca, Edmund kendini yasak iliskiler, sakli tutkular ve utanc verici sirlarla örülü bir aga saplanmis bulur.Booker Ödüllü yazar Iris Murdoch, bu romaninda sorumlulugu ve özgürlügü, travmayi ve...

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La obra cumbre de la autora, ganadora del premio Booker. «Una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa del siglo xx a la vez que una de las novelas más profundamente divertidas que jamás se hayan publicado.»>Tras muchos años de trabajo y muchas sábanas revueltas en el ejercicio de amores desganados, el gran Charles Arrowby, famoso dramaturgo, director y figura destacada de las tablas londinenses, decide retirarse de las candilejas para i...

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made...

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made...