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Iris Murdoch turns her microscopic gaze on vanity and obsession in her 19th novel,. Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he.
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Set in England, British author Iris Murdoch's psychological novel, The Sea, the Sea (1978), follows self-obsessed playwright and stage director Charles Arrowby who retires to a remote coastal area to write his memoirs.Exploring the differences between public and private life, the novel shows how people craft public personas that seem more virtuous than their inner motivations really are.
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"The Sea, The Sea is, for one thing, much less stuffy and enclosed than most of Murdoch's other novels, enriched by a feeling for the natural world. It opens in deliberately leisurely fashion with a minute description of the setting: the headland, the rock-pools, the many-colored pebbles and the driftwood, the sea-coast flowers, thrift and.
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Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century. She was awarded the 1978 Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea, won the Royal Society Literary Award in 1987, and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth. Her final years were clouded by a long struggle with Alzheimer's.
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Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea Diane N. Capitani It is significant that the idea of goodness (and of virtue) has been largely superseded in Western moral philosophy by the idea of Tightness, supported perhaps by some conception of sincerity. This is to some extent a natural outcome of the disappearance of a permanent background to human activ-
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The Sea the Sea by Iris Murdoch, is her 20th novel, which won the Booker prize in 1978. The author famously was an academic; a professor of Philosophy at Oxford University, who also wrote novels with a philosophical focus. The novel is in the form of a journal. The viewpoint character throughout is a famous actor and director, Charles Arrowby.
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease.
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Dame Iris Murdoch's books won widespread acclaim: The Sacred And Profane Love Machine won the Whitbread Prize in 1974, as well as the Booker Prize awarded in 1978 for her 19th novel, The Sea, The Sea.
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The Sea, the Sea is told by Charles Arrowby, a sixty-something actor, director, and playwright of some renown, recently retired. He has bought a place by the sea -- Shruff End, "upon a small promontory" --, hoping to abandon his old world and life. Writing is part of his escape: he pens his memoirs cum diary, recounting past and present.
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Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with.
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Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century. She was awarded the 1978 Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea, won the Royal Society Literary Award in 1987, and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth. Her final years were clouded by a long struggle with Alzheimer's.
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The Sea, the Sea, was Iris Murdoch's 19th novel.It was also her fourth to make the Booker shortlist. Naturally, the fact that Murdoch was so often nominated and only triumphant later in her career.
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The sea, the sea by Murdoch, Iris. Publication date 1978 Topics Middle-aged men, Actors Publisher London : Chatto & Windus Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-11-13 14:43:02 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1592302 Camera
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
About The Sea, the Sea. Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.