Publisher's Synopsis
In this revised study of Iris Murdoch's fiction, the author argues that her spirited earlier work gave way to a deeper more comic style in the 1970s and 80s.;He regards her novels as being serious entertainment and as important fictions in the Anglo-Russian tradition, not as disguised philosophy.;For this second edition, Dr Conradi has added a chapter on her most recent fiction "The Good Apprentice" and "The Book and the Brotherhood" and relates her work to that of Dostoevsky.;The author has published articles on John Fowles and Dostoevsky.
