by Iris Murdoch · Ultramar editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788473863421
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«El hijo de las palabras» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Ultramar Editores in paperback (351 pages, in Spanish).
In «El hijo de las palabras», Hilary Burde is a man marked by a difficult childhood and a love entanglement that cost him Oxford, now settled into a grey civil-service job. When the man he betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes to find forgiveness, but a ghostly repetition haunts him.
«A Word Child» is the original title of «El hijo de las palabras»; the work was published in 1975 and this Spanish edition is from 1983.
For readers of literary fiction and modern classics of British and Irish literature.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
