COMBINATION OF ARTISTIC FEATURES WITH PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS IN THE NOVEL “UNDER THE NET” BY IRIS MURDOCH
This article is dedicated to literary analysis of the artistic features and the philosophical views derived in the novel “Under the Net” by prominent English writer, Iris Murdoch. “Under the Net” is her first masterpiece, published in 1954, which provides readers with amazing realistic quest of a writer whose name is Jake Donaghue, the main hero of the novel, and his philosophical or phenomenological awakening, and self-understanding. The aim of this article is to analyze the novel “Under the Net” with the help of philosophical and literary approaches. In our research we used historical-cultural, empirical, analytical and comparative methods. We analyzed the novel “Under the Net” applying Iris Murdoch’s philosophical non-fiction works including articles and essays. Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) is an English writer who is claimed to be a founder of philosophically coated novel in English literature. Murdoch was prolific writer who created more than thirty novels and some philosophical works dedicated to art, reality, truth and morals. In her very first novel “Under the Net” Murdoch shows existential crisis of an individual, at the same time opposing Jean Paul Sartre’s lonely individuum who condemned to freedom and isolation portrayed in his novel “La Nausee”. As the research results, we identified a philosophical attitude of the author about language ambiguity, egocentric nature, and opposition of reality and fantasy.
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