by Iris Murdoch · Ediciones Destino, S.A., Barcelona · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423310449
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«La máquina del amor sagrado y profano» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Ediciones Destino in hardback (408 pages, in Spanish).
The novel explores the link between sacred and profane love as opposite and complementary poles: enjoying one makes the other necessary, so that the heart, always unsatisfied, constantly oscillates between the two. From that tension, the author builds a narrative about desire and moral conflicts.
The original novel, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, was published in 1974; this edition, translated by Camila Batlles, came out in 1980.
For readers of contemporary fiction and literary novels, with an interest in the philosophical background of love.
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".
