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Conradi, Peter John was born on May 8, 1945 in London. Son of Gordon Henry and Dulcie Phoebe (Cohen) Conradi.
( Iris Murdoch, who died in 1999, was the author of 26 no...)
Iris Murdoch, who died in 1999, was the author of 26 novels, including The Bell, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, The Black Prince, and the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, The Sea. In The Saint and the Artist, now fully revised and updated, distinguished literary critic Peter J. Conradi offers a lively and valuable critical appreciation of her works of fiction. He traces the way in which the zest and buoyant high spirits of her early novels gave way to a more deeply and darkly comic achievement in the novels of the 1970s. Conradi, who knew Murdoch well, suggests how her own life, wonderfully transmuted into high art, provided the raw material for her novels; he also argues that they should be read as serious entertainments and as important fictions in the Anglo-Russian tradition, and not as disguised philosophy. Peter J. Conradi is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Iris Murdoch: A Life.
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( It often takes a crisis to see what a life’s shape has ...)
It often takes a crisis to see what a life’s shape has been, to learn what really matters. For Peter J. Conradi, acclaimed biographer of Iris Murdoch, the moment came in 1982. This is his account of the life-journey on which he subsequently embarked; a self-help book for cynics, it makes clear that "going Buddhist" is neither a quick fix nor a one-shot deal. Drawing on his conversations with Murdoch, and the remarkable letters they exchanged, Conradi seeks to explain the beauty of Buddhisma religion increasingly relevant to Westerners. Peter Conradi's recent books include the widely hailed Iris Murdoch: A Life.
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(A lucid and accessible study of Angus Wilson, a magnifice...)
A lucid and accessible study of Angus Wilson, a magnificently eclectic novelist, who understood the theatricality of modern life, and provided maps of Englishness, maps of the anxious modern psyche and the post-war world.
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Conradi, Peter John was born on May 8, 1945 in London. Son of Gordon Henry and Dulcie Phoebe (Cohen) Conradi.
Bachelor in English Studies, University East Anglia, England, 1967. Master of Arts in English and American Literature, University Sussex, England, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1984.
Lecturer South Bank Polytechnic, London, 1971-1973, senior lecturer, 1973-1980. Visiting professor University Colorado, Boulder, 1978-1980. Visiting lecturer University East Anglia, 1981.
Senior lecturer Kingston Polytechnic, London, 1981-1985. Reader Kingston University, since 1985, professor, 1993-1997, professor emeritus of English, since 1997. Honorary research fellow University College, London, 1997.
Visiting research fellow Magdalen College, Oxford, Engl., 1999.
(A lucid and accessible study of Angus Wilson, a magnifice...)
( Iris Murdoch, who died in 1999, was the author of 26 no...)
(In this revised study of Iris Murdoch's fiction, the auth...)
(Analyzes the novels of the British writer, looks at how t...)
( It often takes a crisis to see what a life’s shape has ...)