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ACCIDENT, by Nicholas Mosley. This literary jigsaw puzzle about an Oxford philosophy don has its spellbinding moments, but some of the pieces are missing...
ACCIDENT, by Nicholas Mosley. This literary jigsaw puzzle about an Oxford philosophy don has its spellbinding moments, but some of the pieces are missing...
ACCIDENT by Nicholas Mosley. 192 pages. Coward-McCann...
Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head) has put readers on warning that novels by Oxford philosophy dons are apt to baffle as well as entertain. The same warning applies to Accident, by Nicholas Mosley (who is, coincidentally, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former chief of the British Union of Fascists), which is about an Oxford philosophy don, and which raises the art of the intellectual tease to the level of mild torture. There is no doubt that in Accident a fictional design of subtlety and distinction has been attempted. But it is a literary jigsaw puzzle with perhaps some extra...
...book seems perversely dedicated to confusion, like Oxford's linguistic philosophy which, from a puritan devotion to clarity, actually makes it very difficult to say anything about anything. Professor Stephen Jervis (and Novelist Mosley with him) struggles against this self-denying ordinance. After all, the intellectual show must go on. This is a novel. It is, the reader is told by one character, not about characters or society, but "about knowing...