The Times has run an article today on the publication of Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War:Letters and Diaries 1939-1945, edited by Peter J. Conradi, who seems to be doing an excellent job as her literary executor. This is a book I am particularly looking forward to reading. The letters to Frank Thompson should be especially revealing and certainly will show us the early thinking of one of the great philosophical minds of the late 20th century. I’ve thought for sometime that it is a great pity that Iris Murdoch’s life has been somewhat overshadowed by the harrowing circumstances of her end, when the great mind vanished, leaving just an empty shell. Conrad is doing his best to rectify this, and I hope when he has finished sorting and publishing her papers we will have further insights into this great Platonist’s thinking.
The book, published by Short Books is due for publication on February 4th, details from TimesOnline.
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