Iris Murdoch

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15.7. 1919 – 8.2. 1999) bila je spisateljica i filozofkinja rodom iz Dublina, najpoznatija po romanima koji kombiniraju bogatu karakterizaciju i snažne zaplete, najčešće na temu etike ili seksualnosti. Njen prvi objavljeni roman Under the Net je godine 2001. od strane američke kuče Modern Library proglašen za jedan od 100 najboljih romana na engleskom jeziku u 20. vijeku. Godine 1987. je dobila titulu Dame Zapovjednika Reda Britanskog Imperija. Studirala je na Koledžu Somerville pri Univerzitetu u Oxfordu.

Iris Murdoch
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	15.7. 1919. Dublin
Smrt	8. 2. 1999. (dob: 79) Oxfordshire
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	romanopisac, filozof
Opus
1954-1997
Inspiracija
Od Platon, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fjodor Dostojevski, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare

Iris Murdoch je poznata i po biografskom filmu Iris u kojoj su je tumačile Kate Winslet i Judi Dench.

Bibliografija

Proza

• Under the Net (1954)
• The Flight from the Enchanter (1956)
• The Sandcastle (1957)
• The Bell (1958)
• A Severed Head (1961)
• An Unofficial Rose (1962)
• The Unicorn (1963)
• The Italian Girl (1964)
• The Red and the Green (1965)
• The Time of the Angels (1966)
• The Nice and the Good (1968) prvo izdanje Chatto and Windus u Londonu tvrdoukoričeno.
• Bruno's Dream (1969)
• A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970)
• An Accidental Man (1971)
• The Black Prince (1973)
• The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)
• A Word Child (1975)
• Henry and Cato (1976)
• The Sea, the Sea (1978), dobitnik Booker Prizea
• Nuns and Soldiers (1980)
• The Philosopher's Pupil (1983)
• The Good Apprentice (1985)
• The Book and the Brotherhood (1987)
• The Message to the Planet (1989)
• The Green Knight (1993)
• Jackson's Dilemma (1995)
• Something Special (reizdanje novela 1999; originalno izdanje 1957)

Filozofija

• Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)
• The Sovereignty of Good (1970)
• The Fire and the Sun (1977)
• Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992)
• Existentialists and Mystics (1997)

Drame

• A Severed Head (koautor J.B. Priestley, 1964)
• The Italian Girl (koautor James Saunders, 1969)
• The Three Arrows & The Servants and the Snow (1973)
• The Servants (1980)
• Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986)
• The Black Prince (1987)

Poezija

• A Year of Birds (1978; revidirano izdanje 1984)
• Poems by Iris Murdoch (1997)

Eksterni linkovi

• The Iris Murdoch Building at the Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling Arhivirano 2007-02-07 na Wayback Machine-u
• A Review of Something Special
• The Iris Murdoch Society
• The Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies
• Extract of Conradi biography at Guardian Unlimited
• Collated reviews of Conradi biography
• Collated reviews of AN Wilson biography
• A series of Iris Murdoch walks in London Arhivirano 2006-12-15 na Wayback Machine-u
• A review of the movie, Iris