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  • The Post-War novel in Crisis: Three perspectives

    • Authors: Gillian Dooley (2005)

  • The most obvious difference between nineteenth-century novels and twentieth-century novels is that the nineteenth-century ones are better. (Iris Murdoch, 1970) … the warmth, the compassion, the humanity, the love of people which illuminates the literature of the nineteenth century and which makes all these old novels a statement of faith in man himself … are qualities which I believe are lacking from literature now. (Doris Lessing, 1957)
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  • The pursuit of love in Iris Murdoch’s the message to the planet

    • Authors: Gillian Dooley (2014)

  • In October 1986, not long before she started work on The Message to the Planet, Iris Murdoch told a symposium in Amsterdam that she believed her later novels were better than the earlier ones. The Message to the Planet contains two loosely interwoven plots: the love triangle between the painter Jack Sheerwater, his wife Franca, and his lover Alison; and the desperate pursuit by the young historian Alfred Ludens of the enigmatic sage Marcus Vallar, one of Murdoch’s recurrent enchanter figures. In this article I compare two novels to see what The Message to the Planet has to add to the picture presented in Under the Net, and consider whether the dramatization in Murdoch’s sparkling debu...