by Iris Murdoch · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418668418
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«La máquina del amor sagrado y profano» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Impedimenta in paperback (424 pages, in Spanish).
Monty Small, a detective novelist, takes refuge from his wife's death in the problems of his neighbours: Blaise, a psychotherapist, and his wife, Harriet. The couple's exemplary facade hides a decade of infidelity with Emily, of which Monty is an accomplice. Blaise must choose between conjugal love and forbidden passion.
Translation by Camila Batlles; original in English «The Sacred and Profane Love Machine» (1974), winner of the Whitbread Novel Award. Number 243 in the Impedimenta collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and modern classics with plots of love, infidelity and moral dilemmas.
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".
