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Iris Murdoch’s life in ravenous, compulsive letters
– macleans.ca
Author Dame Iris Murdoch (right) breakfasting at home with husband John Bayley, Don of St. Catherine’s College, in May 1986. (Terry Smith/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)LIVING ON PAPER: LETTERS FROM IRIS MURDOCH
Edited by Avril Horner, Anne Rowe
“Letters should aspire to the condition of talk,” Murdoch, the British novelist and philosopher, at one point tells a reluctant correspondent, who is no doubt intimidated by her reputation for brilliance. “Say first thing that comes into head.” It’s seduction—subtle, unmistakable.
When you consider that Murdoch is writing a female student with whom she is engaged in an intimate relationship, and that she is at the same time in correspondence with a male pupil, with whom she’s also having a dangerous fling—“Yes, you are a wolf, and have sent me a very wolfish letter,” she writes him—you get a sense of the tangle of communications running through this book, just shy of 600 pages, all redolent of a woman whose intellectual appetites and hunger for experience were equally insatiable…
Iris Murdoch’s life in ravenous, compulsive letters
– macleans.ca
Author Dame Iris Murdoch (right) breakfasting at home with husband John Bayley, Don of St. Catherine’s College, in May 1986. (Terry Smith/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)LIVING ON PAPER: LETTERS FROM IRIS MURDOCH
Edited by Avril Horner, Anne Rowe
“Letters should aspire to the condition of talk,” Murdoch, the British novelist and philosopher, at one point tells a reluctant correspondent, who is no doubt intimidated by her reputation for brilliance. “Say first thing that comes into head.” It’s seduction—subtle, unmistakable.
When you consider that Murdoch is writing a female student with whom she is engaged in an intimate relationship, and that she is at the same time in correspondence with a male pupil, with whom she’s also having a dangerous fling—“Yes, you are a wolf, and have sent me a very wolfish letter,” she writes him—you get a sense of the tangle of communications running through this book, just shy of 600 pages, all redolent of a woman whose intellectual appetites and hunger for experience were equally insatiable…
