The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
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Author: Iris MurdochIntroduction: Mary Kinzie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-03-01
ISBN: 014118616X
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary: 5 Stars
Although this book is overly long and not perfectly structured, it makes up for these deficiencies by a degree of passion and intellect sorely missing from much contemporary fiction. The novel concerns a retired theater director who moves to the seashore in order to contemplate his life. He recalls how an adolescent love which he greatly idealized prohibited him from committing himself completely to any of the important women in his life. Coincidentally, he meets the woman again and tries to resume his love affair but she won't have him. He passionately refuses to let her reject him this time and holds her prisoner in his house. When his friends from London come to visit him at this time, the situation deteriorates into an amusing farce but with serious overtones. In spite of the man's delusions, his passion is sublime; his deluded behavior is paradoxically magnificent. When he finally he comes to grips with the reality, both he and the reader are very much saddened, although enlightened.
It's really pleasurable to read such a complex novel that is witty and compassionate and in the final analysis, wise.
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