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2 de fev. de 1970 · I don’t think anyone who has read Iris Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) all the way through can be neutral about it. You either love the insights into human relationships, cynical as they may be, or you are repelled by the seemingly la-di-da treatment of evil.
- Iris Murdoch
1 de mar. de 2001 · A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Iris Murdoch. Penguin, Mar 1, 2001 - Fiction - 432 pages. An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate ...
A Fairly Honourable Defeat is the story of a group of people, active in the busy world of London, whose lives are anchored in the various kinds of love they have found, or lost. The two sisters at ...
3 de mai. de 2002 · The most important novelist writing in my time. A.S. Byatt. A distinguished novelist of a very rare kind. Kingsley Amis. Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist
Summary. In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace ...
An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The SeaIn a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.
Irish author and philosopher Iris Murdoch's thirteenth novel, A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) tells the story of a man who makes a cruel bet that he can dissolve a relationship between two of his friends. According to The New York Times, "The farcical interludes and the intricacy of the philosophical theme make this one of the most enjoyable ...
