Re: Iris Murdoch
I think it's perfect
really
It was my first Murdoch and I immediately fell for her.
But it's true that melodrama is an important aspect of her novels, in The Book and the Brotherhood, which in many respects is very different from The Sea, the Sea, the melodrama and the soap-ish elements are so foregrounded that it's almost a guilty pleasure
if it weren't all so complex, deep etc.
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