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...Murdoch Returns...
...UNICORN (311 pp.)-Iris Murdoch-Viking...
...light novels (those in which God does not have a speaking part) should be called "entertainments." The tag does not fit all light novels, because it carries the implication that the author can write much more deeply when he cares to. But it suits exactly the books of Iris Murdoch, a professional philosopher and former Oxford don. whose only equal as an entertainment writer is Greene himself...
...Murdoch entertainments are usually very witty and more than a little strange. Enthusiasts cherish such oddities as the scene in which two characters try to make love in a recumbent church bell. Further, the entertainments are pleasantly foggy with the mists that rise off deep psychological and intellectual waters. The characters rarely do more than waggle their toes in these depths, but the feeling is conveyed that they are all excellent swimmers. In The Unicorn, her seventh novel, the author unwisely grows impatient with toe dipping. She pitches her characters into the murkiest of the soul's dark waters...
...Author Murdoch sets her novel in the form of a parody of 19th century romanticism. The heroine, a schoolteacher named Marian, agrees to take a job as governess in a country house on a remote British seacoast. When she alights from the train, the locals stare at her strangely; no, there is no taxi or bus that runs to Gaze Castle...