A severed head, : a novel / Iris Murdoch

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, : Penguin Books , 1976, c1961.Description: 204 p. ; 19 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • FIC MUR
LOC classification:
  • PZ4.M974 Se  PR6063.U7
Summary: Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medua informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.
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Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medua informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.

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