A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
ISBN: 9780141186177
出版社: Penguin Classics
出版年: 2001-03-01
页数: 432
定价: USD 15.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly.