Great Writers 4: IRIS MURDOCH
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Uploaded by OldGrumpyGuy on Mar 3, 2009
Iris Murdoch is considered by many to be one of the great novelists of the 20th Century with her portraits of life among the British upper and middle classes and the academic world (being a professor of philopsophy at Oxford University). With a reading from one of her early novels, "The Bell".
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And having watched the other writers videos, I also heard several DH Lawrence readings as well! Thet seem to agree with her, have you ever considered Sri Lanka as a new starting post to save the world? Interestingly there has also been a lot of RL Stevenson as well, would you rank him as a good or great writer?
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Murdoch was not a Professor (at least, not in the British sense). She was simply a Fellow of St Anne's, if memory serves. She was a jolly good philosopher, though.
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Tack (thanks in Swedish for readers who don't know). I have plans for more but right now I am working on my stage musicals and have little time for anything else..
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Really like your Great writers videos. Hope you plan on making more of those in the future:)
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I'm in Sri Lanka doing some speech exams and it was amazing to her a piece of Murdoch used as an own-choice text. I have never seen it selected anywhere in the UK so it was refreshing to hear it after seeing your video. I feel she is so underated and is another great writer who has been simply hidden away because she didn't fit in!
stewartvcm 1 year ago
@stewartvcm It's nice to know that appreciation of Iris Murdoch has spread to Sri Lanka. And you are right. She is underrated. But more importanty I think, she is not as widely acclaimed as she should be
OldGrumpyGuy 1 year ago
have you ever thought of doing book reviews?
workismoney1 1 year ago
@workismoney1 I just don't have the time!
OldGrumpyGuy 1 year ago
Thanks for your video. You could be a really good teacher... ;)
JakeDonaghue 1 year ago
Thanks Jake. I don't think I would be a good teacher, however. I'm too impatient
OldGrumpyGuy 1 year ago