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- catalog abstract ""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, the worker in Austrian refugee-camps, the RCA lecturer during the 1960s, the lifelong devotee of friendship conducted at a distancce and by letter, and the Buddhist-Christian mystic. It balances the formative years before the creative confusion of youth gave way to a greater stability, with an account of her maturity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12236959.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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, the worker in Austrian refugee-camps, the RCA lecturer during the 1960s, the lifelong devotee of friendship conducted at a distancce and by letter, and the Buddhist-Christian mystic. It balances the formative years before the creative confusion of youth gave way to a greater stability, with an account of her maturity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Fairy-Tale Princess: 1919-1944 -- 'You ask how Irish she is?': 1616-1925 -- No Mean City: 1925-1932 -- The Clean-Cut Rational World: 1932-1938 -- A Very Grand Finale: 1938-1939 -- Madonna Bolshevicka: 1939-1942 -- This Love Business: 1942-1943 -- A la Guerre, comme a la Guerre: 1943-1944 -- Storm and Stress: 1944-1956 -- A Madcap Tale: 1944-1946 -- Displaced Persons: 1946-1947 -- Cambridge: 1947-1948 -- St Anne's: 1948-1952 -- Franz Baermann Steiner: 1951-1952 -- Conversations with a Prince: 1952-1956 -- An Ideal Co-Child: 1953-1956.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 661-676) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxix, 706 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0393048756".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.914 B 21".
- catalog subject "Murdoch, Iris.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR6063.U7 Z629 2001".
- catalog subject "Philosophers Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Fairy-Tale Princess: 1919-1944 -- 'You ask how Irish she is?': 1616-1925 -- No Mean City: 1925-1932 -- The Clean-Cut Rational World: 1932-1938 -- A Very Grand Finale: 1938-1939 -- Madonna Bolshevicka: 1939-1942 -- This Love Business: 1942-1943 -- A la Guerre, comme a la Guerre: 1943-1944 -- Storm and Stress: 1944-1956 -- A Madcap Tale: 1944-1946 -- Displaced Persons: 1946-1947 -- Cambridge: 1947-1948 -- St Anne's: 1948-1952 -- Franz Baermann Steiner: 1951-1952 -- Conversations with a Prince: 1952-1956 -- An Ideal Co-Child: 1953-1956.".
- catalog title "Iris Murdoch : a life / Peter J. Conradi.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".