Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945 by Peter J. Conradi (PDF)

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These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch’s passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson, brother of the historian E.P. Thompson, who was killed in 1944, and David Hicks, with whom she had a dramatic affair, engagement, and breakup. It also includes the journal that Murdoch kept as a touring actress during August of 1939. The selection sheds new light on a brilliant young mind (“sharp and polished as a sword” as Frances Wilson describes it), while painting a vivid picture of life during the Second World War.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐After reading her letters written during WWII, I read three of her novels. I really liked “The Sea, the Sea.”She was born in 1919, 20 years before me and lived in interesting times. The novels deal with the complexity of human relationships.

⭐All punctuation marks appear as little squares. And I mean all. Anything by Conradi about Murdoch is bound to be good, but this is maddeningly distracting.If you read it on the computer cloud reader, it is fine, but I want to read this in my Kindle. Aaaarrrgh!

⭐This is a wonderful and very moving book, and it gave me a keen sense how the war experience contrasted with and impacted the seemingly innocent, carefree pre-war era not only in Murdoch’s life, but also in the lives of her contemporaries, who – one sometimes has the sad impression – were dying left and right. It is also great material for the difference and indeed contrast in the experience of those who went out to fight and those who, like Murdoch, had to stay at home. Her letter-exchange with Frank Thompson is, for me, the particular hightlight of the book.Unfortunately, I have to subtract two stars: For all its great content, the book is very sloppily produced, with many footnotes which are in the text missing at the bottom or cutting off in mid-sentence, which was particularly frustrating. There are also footnotes referring back to earlier footnotes, but unfortunately the wrong ones, with the right ones sometimes not to be found. Here and there, a proofreader would not have hurt either. I also feel that the paper quality could have been higher and the binding sturdier, as the book sometimes feels as if it had been intended as a paperback.

⭐What a fascinating character Iris Murdoch was if your a fan buy this book it is a fascinating insight into her early youth before the heady days of her writing her novels.

⭐As expected

⭐great product, quick delivery, no problems

⭐I’m reading it right now – a different view of Iris Murdoch – as a young woman. Fun.

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