The Black Prince
by Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was an Oxford don in philosophy and then became a very well respected novelist. A preoccupation with philosophical questions runs beneath her wonderfully inventive plots. With Eliot it’s Spinoza who is looming behind the fiction; with Murdoch it’s often Plato. She maintains a Platonic ambiguity throughout the whole book.
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