by Iris Murdoch · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070379187
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«Les angéliques» is Iris Murdoch's novel, published by Folio in paperback (320 pages, in French).
The clergyman Carel Fisher lives secluded in a London rectory and instils unease in his daughter Muriel, the maid Pattie, and Elisabeth, who is ill with a mysterious ailment. The novel explores the bonds linking these characters to Carel and the boundary between the angelic and the demonic.
Originally published in 1966 as The Time of the Angels; this French edition, translated by Anne-Marie Soulac, belongs to the Folio collection no. 1918 (1988).
For readers of literary fiction and philosophical novels who want to discover the work of Iris Murdoch.
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".
