So you know how you were saying you wanted to read soap operas written by philosophers? Ok, but still, you should. She wrote 26 or so novels from 1956-1995. A few years after her last novel, she died of Alzheimer’s, the story of which you can see in the movie Iris. Iris Murdoch was a trained philosopher who didn’t start writing until her 30s. She is also concerned with some strange ideas and topics in her novels. For example, when you pick up one […]
Nabokov by way of Evelyn Waugh?
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch