by Iris Murdoch · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140086997
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In 'The Good Apprentice', Iris Murdoch introduces us to Edward Baltram, a young man tormented by guilt after a prank goes terribly wrong, and his stepbrother Stuart Cuno, who decides to abandon a promising academic career to dedicate himself to social work. Through their stories, Murdoch explores themes of guilt, redemption, and the search for good in a modern world full of spiritual crises. A serious and funny novel that invites reflection on morality and the human condition.
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".
