Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fertility, one November morning in 1970. Then he dressed himself in the somewhat Grau-starkian uniform of his private army, the Shield Society, and led a group of young right-wing followers to a military headquarters in western Tokyo. There, in a violent and extravagantly eccentric display of the artist engage, he broke into the commander's office, harangued some mocking soldiers from a balcony about the disgraces of fading Japanese imperial tradition, withdrew and committed harakiri. A companion ritually lopped off the head of Japan's most celebrated postwar literary talent, a man who had often been...
...brief, intense affair with Julian brings this novel - and perhaps Miss Murdoch's whole body of writing - to a high point. All the passionate Murdoch questions get passionately asked. What is the connection between love and death? Is "black Eros," as a transfigured Bradley comes to think, the artist's name for truth - the name for all the knowledge he seeks...
...artist be defined, after all, as a lover who remembers...
...gods do not come cheap in Murdoch novels. A suicide and a murder occur. Most of what passes for love is "like a dream, for gotten" and this is the worst spell of all. Doomed by the very powers he has released, Bradley never does become his kind of artist, but he does become Miss Murdoch's kind of lover - a man with "a sort of certainty, perhaps the only sort...
...Lover or artist? Neither or both? In the end, Bradley Pearson's designation scarcely matters, for The Black Prince is really the story of all souls who traffic with their demons in order to transcend, sometimes at a terrible risk, the meanness, the dull ness, the lower depths of being human. Blessed are those who live to tell about it, pre-eminently Iris Murdoch...