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  1. The Sea, The Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive his character – the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central ...

    • Iris Murdoch
    • 1978
  2. 1. Jan. 2001 · Oh blessed northern sea, a real sea with clean merciful tides, not like the stinking soupy Mediterranean! Charles Arrowby decides to retire from a very long and celebrated career in the theatrical world.

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  3. 26. Jan. 2020 · A review and analysis of the 1978 Booker Prize-winning novel by Iris Murdoch, about a retired theater director who revisits his past and his first love. The novel explores themes of self-knowledge, illusion, and reality through humor, fantasy, and tragedy.

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  4. Set in England, British author Iris Murdoch’s psychological novel, The Sea, the Sea (1978), follows self-obsessed playwright and stage director Charles Arrowby who retires to a remote coastal area to write his memoirs.

  5. Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and echoing Prospero’s attempt to transform magic into spirit, The Sea, The Sea brilliantly depicts the risks and self-deceptions of the spiritual life, the precarious and important distinction between imagination and fantasy, and the vital importance of negotiating these dangers.

    • Iris Murdoch
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  6. 15. Juli 2020 · In The Sea, The Sea she tells us that there were once two cousins who grew up each in his own way to pursue the good—baffled, but with some intuition of its nature: a saint and a sinner, one to pursue it through religion and the other through art.

  7. 1. Juni 2020 · The Sea, The Sea was Iris Murdoch’s nineteenth novel and the only one to win the Booker Prize (in 1978). It is, to my mind, her best novel, as well as being the most representative of her talents and distinctive world view. It is also hypnotically readable.