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Allusions to Dostoyevsky are explicit in ''The Philosopher's Pupil,'' where the potential murderer George hallucinates a hammercarrying double and insists on discussing with Rozanov such matters as good and evil, God and Satan, and whether there is a point beyond morality at which ''everything is permitted.'' Where such ...
Murdoch admits about The Philosopher’s Pupil, “this novel has more to do with a pupil teacher relationship which I’ve bee involved in all my life in both roles”.12 Like her other novels such as “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, “The Black Prince” and "The Sea, the Sea," Iris Murdoch was weaving her tapestry of human frailty, self-deception, and morality in this fiction too.
1 de jul. de 1983 · Murdoch followers can tick off each familiar, idiosyncratic symbol--the water, the dog, the flash of antlers. But, for those attuned to deep matters, this is rich and freshly challenging fiction: an enchanted journey into metaphysics, with prideful passions abstracted--via that densely stylish Murdoch prose--into awesomely homiletic postures.
3 de mar. de 2000 · A darkly comic story of creativity, conscience, rebirth and love, which displays all of Murdoch's virtuoso imagination and narrative genius. In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing.
In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George McCaffrey, the Philosopher's old pupil, a demonic man ...
The Philosopher’s Pupil begins with an episode of a man, George McCaffrey, and wife Stella driving through the dark in a rain-storm, arguing. The wife tells the husband that he is driving recklessly because heis“crazy withfearbecause thatmaniscoming” (p.5).“That man” isidenti-
He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George McCaffrey, the Philosopher's old pupil, a demonic man desperate for redemption. Other editions - View all. The Philosopher's Pupil: A Novel Iris Murdoch Limited preview - 2010. The Philosopher's Pupil
