Iris Murdoch

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Is /lit/ only about meming now?
I only read The Sea, the Sea, The Bell, The Unicorn and Henry and Cato. I agree with you, she is very underrated.

>>9680257
One of the best writers of 20th century. It's rare to see someone with possiblity to create almost alive characters. Subtle metaphors are her strong point too.
I wish /lit/ would not disregard bc of her gender.

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I think her biography overshadowed her amazing novels. Her husband milked her "tragic death" too muc.

Have only read A Severed Head, but I enjoyed it.

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>>9680257
my opinion is that she was a low-talent hack who only fooled the british into celebrating her b/c she included deliberately weird phenomena to confuse the stupid. she may have venus fly-trapped wittgenstein with her rank snatch, but she wished that she achieved a tenth of the greatness of her friend (and my philoso-fu), GEM Anscombe.

murdoch took the "C.S. Lewis Route": get BTFO by anscombe when you try to write big-girl philosophy, then spend the rest of your life writing allegorical fiction for children (and those arrested at that age)—but at least lewis' work was likeable.

>>9680298
>almost alive characters
Mary Sues and other vague literary archetypes are all I've seen from her. everything halfway interesting in her books was done better by Dostoyevsky in a paragraph.

>subtle metaphors
BAHAHAHA you mean like the giant flying saucer in "The Nice and the Good?" or even the title: "The Nice and the Good." oh my god, what if society was like a net, catching all the free swimming fish? or what if our lies tangled us up like a net? the net is like la condition humaine! such subtlety!

some of her political books troll me, but the sea the sea gets mentioned a lot here. or it used. i guess it's the more obvious choice for the SWTGs board