This is a semi-early novel by Iris Murdoch (early 1960s), about her sixth or so, and comes across as an both an interesting blend of the early kind of savageness of Under the Net and some of the later mellowing in her longer novels of the 1980s. Murdoch often writes and rewrites different versions of her novels in different settings. Her second novel Flight from the Enchanter is a model that she explores many different times with different kinds of enchanter figures. Another theme she […]