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A Severed Head is a satirical, sometimes farcical 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch. It was Murdoch's fifth published novel. Primary themes include marriage, adultery, and incest within a group of civilised and educated people.
- Iris Murdoch
- 1961
3.74. 5,907 ratings669 reviews. As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest, castration, violence and suicide - and yet succeeds in making of them a book that is brilliantly enjoyable.
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A Severed Head is a 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch that explores themes of marriage, fidelity, adultery, and sexual liberation among upper-class Brits. The novel follows Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a wine merchant who has an affair with his mistress and a wife who wants to divorce him for another man.
A Severed Head (1961) is the most incisive and entertaining of her elaborately artificial works; The Bell (1958) best achieves the psychological and emotional complexity she found so valuable in classic 19th-century fiction.
A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover.
- Iris Murdoch
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Dive deep into Iris Murdoch, J. B. Priestley's A Severed Head with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
Jun 22, 2019 · A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. This strange 1961 novel—which succeeded The Bell, a far more conventionally realist novel, in Murdoch’s oeuvre—seems to have a cult following, as indicated by recent recommendations by Susan Scarf Merrell in The New York Times and Gabe Habash in The Millions.
