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Kristalynn Busskohl's avatar

Thank you for drawing my attention to these, it was affirming and so useful to read your experience with Iris. Definitely helping me to deepen that inner conversation I've been building with her work, her voice, her philosophical ideas. Much appreciated.

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Victoria's avatar

Very interesting piece. I read a lot of Murdoch in my late teens/early 20s but I have to say it’s the philosophy not the novels that have stayed with me. When I’ve tried to reread any of the novels more recently they struck me as very dated now in a way that the philosophical writing is not. She still seems to me like someone who really wanted to be a great novelist, rather than someone who actually was one.

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