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Iris Murdoch's Life - Like Her Books - Was Full Of Extraordinary Passions And Profound Relationships With Some Of The Most Inspiring And Influential Thinkers, Artists, Writers And Poets Of Her Time. During The War She Pondered Aldous Huxley's Doctrine That, For A Writer, 'it Is Not What One Has Experienced But What One Does With What One Has Experienced That Matters, ' And She Later Wrote That The Person Who Might Help Her Better Herself 'must Not Distinguish Between Me And My Work'. She Was Sometimes Portrayed As A Bourgeois Grandee Living An Unworldly, Detached Intellectual Life, Inventing A Fantastical Alternative World For Compensation; But Much That Was Thought To Be Romance In Her Work Turns Out To Be Reality. 'real Life Is So Much Odder Than Any Book, ' She Wrote To A Friend, And Her Life Was As Exciting And Improbable As Her Fiction. Her Novels Are Not Just Stylised Comedies Of Manners With Artificial Complications, But Reflect Passionately Lived Experience, Albeit Wonderfully Transmuted. Peter Conradi's Biography Returns The Reader To Her Best Work, Through A Quest For The Living Flesh-and-blood Creature: The Irishwoman, The Communist-bohemian, The Treasury Civil Servant,

Author

Peter J. Conradi

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780002571234

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.85 / 5 (163 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14