On the centennial of Iris Murdoch’s birth, remembering a 20th-century giant | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

On the centennial of Iris Murdoch’s birth, remembering a 20th-century giant | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Updated: June 26, 2019 10:54:50 am

On the centennial of Iris Murdoch’s birth, remembering a 20th-century giant

Iris Murdoch was a staunch feminist, and a pioneer in putting complex and believable gay and lesbian characters into novels. But she also wrote six novels from the point of view of male characters (these are, in fact, some of her very best) and none from a woman’s first-person perspective.

The intensity of Murdoch’s gaze, boring into you from the dust jackets of her many novels, seemed a promise of the books’contents. (Source: Amazon.in)

Dwight Garner