by Iris Murdoch · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140126648
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«The Message to the Planet» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Penguin Books in paperback (563 pages, in English).
The novel follows Alfred Ludens, convinced that Professor Marcus Vallar, a metaphysician with miraculous gifts, hides an essential truth about the human condition. After curing a penniless Irish poet, the consequences reach an ever-widening circle of people, in a story of love, betrayal, faith and doubt about the meaning of life.
Published in 1990, it is Iris Murdoch's twenty-fourth novel, within literary and philosophical fiction.
For readers of literary fiction, philosophy and twentieth-century British narrative, including university audiences.
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".
