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The Sea, The Sea has become one of my top five favorite booksand Iris Murdoch one of my favorite authors.
In The Sea, The Sea, we meet arrogant, snobbish Charles Arrowby,a retired London theatre director. Charles has recently bought ahouse by the sea where he hopes to finish his pretentiousautobiography. Many things happen, however, to disrupt thisenterprise.
First, Charles discovers that one of the small town'sinhabitants is his very first love, a love who disappeared from hislife in his teens. Believing her to symbolize his lost youth andinnocence, Charles becomes obsessed with her almost to the point ofmadness.
Iris Murdoch's books are all excellent studies ofrelationships and The Sea, The Sea is certainly one of her best. Init, the character of Charles lies at the center of a vast networkof complex relationships and interpersonal interactions. Much ofthe novel is an exploration of how we, ourselves, influence whatothers eventually come to see about people and how they relate tothem.
In The Sea, The Sea, we meet arrogant, snobbish Charles Arrowby,a retired London theatre director. Charles has recently bought ahouse by the sea where he hopes to finish his pretentiousautobiography. Many things happen, however, to disrupt thisenterprise.
First, Charles discovers that one of the small town'sinhabitants is his very first love, a love who disappeared from hislife in his teens. Believing her to symbolize his lost youth andinnocence, Charles becomes obsessed with her almost to the point ofmadness.
Iris Murdoch's books are all excellent studies ofrelationships and The Sea, The Sea is certainly one of her best. Init, the character of Charles lies at the center of a vast networkof complex relationships and interpersonal interactions. Much ofthe novel is an exploration of how we, ourselves, influence whatothers eventually come to see about people and how they relate tothem.