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The Flight from the Enchanter
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From the Publisher
'Brilliant, witty and original' Sunday Times
'Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit' Cyril Connolly
The story of a group of people who love and fear the magician who affects all their lives: the ravishing and eccentric young Annette who, after swinging on a chandilier, runs away from her finishing school to enter the School of Life, and learns a good deal more than she bargained for: the fierce and melancholy Rosa, the mistress of two Polish brothers: her brother, editor of a down-at-heel magazine: the scholar, Peter Saward, obsessed by an indecipherale ancient script: Rainborough, a civil servant, struggling in the toils of his secretary. Their lives revolve around the mysterious figure of Mischa Fox, a frightening, yet also touching, figure of power. Each is posessed by some person, idea, illusion or object. Each tries to break the spell, to flee the enchanter.
Bought for LyzzyBee, Heaven-Ali, Katisha50 & I's Iris Murdoch a Month challenge. This is the second book we will read.
'Brilliant, witty and original' Sunday Times
'Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit' Cyril Connolly
The story of a group of people who love and fear the magician who affects all their lives: the ravishing and eccentric young Annette who, after swinging on a chandilier, runs away from her finishing school to enter the School of Life, and learns a good deal more than she bargained for: the fierce and melancholy Rosa, the mistress of two Polish brothers: her brother, editor of a down-at-heel magazine: the scholar, Peter Saward, obsessed by an indecipherale ancient script: Rainborough, a civil servant, struggling in the toils of his secretary. Their lives revolve around the mysterious figure of Mischa Fox, a frightening, yet also touching, figure of power. Each is posessed by some person, idea, illusion or object. Each tries to break the spell, to flee the enchanter.
Bought for LyzzyBee, Heaven-Ali, Katisha50 & I's Iris Murdoch a Month challenge. This is the second book we will read.
A very strange read but oddly compelling as well. This was a very slow read for me but I was gradually drawn into the world of Mischa Fox & those who are 'enchanted' by him. Apparently this novel is often cited as a failure, if so than I feel it is a fantastic failure well worth the perseverence to read.
