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In a guest post for the Nerd Daily, Harris acknowledges the debt of Broken Light to Stephen King's Carrie, saying:...menopause triggers Bernie's powers just as puberty triggers Carrie's: both are a metaphor for rage, though Carrie's rage is reactive, directed against the bullies at school, her mother and ultimately herself, whilst Bernie's rage, though quieter, is both feminist and political ...
Violet then helps Iris write apology letters to all of the party guests, as well as her parents. Moved by the letter, Iris' parents allow her to continue working as a doll. On the way back to Leiden, Iris tells Violet that her parents named her after the flower of the same name, since she was born while they were in full bloom.
The novel's dramatic plot and remote setting are characteristic of Gothic fiction. [2] Murdoch biographer and critic Peter J. Conradi notes the author's effective use of "the stage props and scenery of the Romantic sublime", including massive cliffs overlooking a dangerous sea, isolated castles, mysterious megaliths, and a deadly bog containing carnivorous plants.
In 2010 A Fairly Honourable Defeat was one of the 21 novels on the long list for the Lost Man Booker Prize, but it did not appear on the short list of six from which the winner was chosen. [10] In 2022 British religious scholar Karen Armstrong said she left a book club when its members dismissed the novel as "evil." [11]
The novel starts with Editor's Foreword ("Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.") The main story is of a period in the later life of the main character, ageing London author Bradley Pearson, during which time he falls in love with the daughter of a friend and literary rival, Arnold Baffin. For years ...
The Bell, Iris Murdoch's fourth novel, was published in 1958 by Chatto & Windus in Great Britain and Viking Press in the United States. [11]: 9, 12 It was an immediate popular and commercial success, with 30,000 copies of the British edition printed within ten weeks of its publication. [9]: 423 The novel was widely and positively reviewed.
The novel's title and epigraph are taken from Rupert Brooke's poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester. [2] In the poem, which was written in Berlin in 1912, Brooke contrasts his beloved English countryside with the German city around him. The disciplined German tulips, he says, "bloom in rows", unlike the "unkempt" wild roses in England.
Set in London, the novel tells the story of a dying man called Bruno and his family.Narrated in the third person that allows for multiple character perspectives it follows Bruno, Bruno's son Miles, Miles' wife Diana and her sister Lisa, Bruno's son-in-law Danby, Bruno's nurse Adelaide, Nigel (the messianic figure consistently found in Murdoch's novels) and Nigel's twin brother, Will.