The Black Prince - Jean Iris Murdoch

Jean Iris Murdoch - English writer and philosopher. The author of the novel The Black Prince, the Booker Prize winner, the leader in the number of hits on the short list of Booker (six times). Her first published novel Under the Net in 1998 was recognized as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, according to the publishing company Modern Library. In 1987, she was awarded the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, The Times put Murdock in 12th place in the list of “The 50 Greatest British Writers since 1945.” Murdoch wrote 26 novels and is the author of philosophical and dramatic works. Murdoch’s debut in literature was the 1954 novel Under the Net. In 1987, she became the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which allowed her to use the title “Lady”. In 1995, Murdoch wrote his last novel, The Jackson Dilemma, which was critically received by critics.

The Black Prince is a book for Iris Murdoch in a sense, a sign. Because it is in this novel that the principles by which she builds her works were formed to the end. The Black Prince is a unique, self-contained world that exists according to its own laws, a world that is both logical and bizarre, realistic - and in some way surreal ... Someone sees in this book the history of the crisis of world perception and the last love of an elderly an intellectual, someone - a postmodern version of the legend of Hamlet, seen by the eyes of Claudius - everyone will take it in their own way. The Black Prince is simply The Black Prince. And that is enough.