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Article: Peter J. Conradi. Iris Murdoch: a Life.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- April 1, 2003
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New York, Norton. 2001. xxix + 706 pages + 32 plates. $35. ISDN 0-393-04875-6
IRIS MURDOCH: A LIFE is the first full biography of philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, who passed away in 1999 at the age of eighty. Peter Conradi, who edited Murdoch's Existentialists and Mystics (1997), has drawn upon his friendship with Murdoch, conversations with her friends, and her letters and journals to "start the job of setting her work in the context of the cultural/intellectual life of the mid-twentieth century, of the generation who struggled to come to terms philosophically and emotionally and artistically with Stalin and Hitler, with existentialism, and with the slow ...