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...IRIS MURDOCH 366 pages. Viking...
...include a posthumous Yukio Mishima novel (Runaway Horses), the second volume of a tetralogy that began with Spring Snow; Nobel Prizewinner Heinrich Böll's Group Portrait with Lady, a study of private lives in Nazi Germany; and two of the best books ever done by Iris Murdoch and Doris Lessing. In The Black Prince, Murdoch has happily abandoned those platoons of characters for a manageable menage a six (or so). The result is an engaging exercise about art v. life, and a love affair between a man of 58 and a 20-year-old girl that...
...IRIS MURDOCH 442 pages. Viking...
...publisher wants us to know that Iris Murdoch, who has published 14 novels in 18 years, took a whole year's breather between her last book and this one. In some ways the vacation shows to advantage. The tone is calmer and the events more reasonable here than in her other recent novels. But the fact remains that Miss Murdoch is now writing urbane soap opera. The huge U.S. women's market should not be put off by her other career as an Oxford don (which she has given up). One feels that if she ever fixed...
...comparison, the woes of the others seem somehow pathetic and finally enervating, partly because they are so deeply selfish. If nothing else, Miss Murdoch has pulled one new switch in this book by replacing the complacent American, so often a carefully drawn figure in British comedy, with a cast of smug Englishmen whose horizons have shrunk to little-England dimensions...