Kara Prens

Iris Murdoch, one of the most important representatives of the twentieth century novel, questions some of the basic problems experienced by the modern individual with a dramatic fiction in The Black Prince. Within the complex weave of a love story, the author examines the nature of art and love from a bold perspective, free from prejudices. The complex spiritual conflicts experienced by different characters along the axes of life-art, love-freedom are reflected, sometimes with an ironic language and sometimes with an intellectual content.

Bradley Pearson, the hero and narrator of the novel, is an elderly writer. He lives alone; But he is surrounded by his ex-wife, his brother-in-law, Arnold Baffin, a younger writer, and his restless wife; The damaging relationships he entered into with some young girls began to bore him like a circle. Bradley tries to escape from everything.

While he searches for truth and common sense in his life as a writer, he also seeks to create a redemptive crisis through love. His failure and the problems caused by this failure bring a tragic dimension to his life. At one point in the novel, he addresses the reader:

One of the things that show that life is not like art, my dear friend, is that the characters in art have a dignity that cannot be violated.

However, characters in life do not have such a feature. But life also emulates this feature of art in a pathetic and constant way; Just like it emulates its other features. The Black Prince is a fascinating story of despair.

The fiction of the work, in which the author questions the concept of platonic love, psychology and indirectly religion, offers surprises to the reader with unexpected events that come one after the other. The Black Prince is a work that drags you while thinking.

For those who are not afraid to confront themselves...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 410

Print Year: 2013


Language: English
Publisher: Ayrinti Publications

First Printing Year: 1999

Number of Pages: 410

Language: < /strong>English