![]() ![]() Less charismatic, is normally associated with a specific event. Into a relatively closed, relatively cozy circle of characters suddenly enters a being from outside whose effect is immediately to disrupt it, to change everything in it, characters and all. And, as much as anything she has written, "Bruno'sĭream" conforms to what one thinks of as the Murdoch formula.Įssentially, it is that of the test. Murdoch habitually overloads her fiction, so that it breaks down under a superfluity of characters often too diverse in kind or rendered according to too diverse laws of creation. It is still anything but easy to assess, partly, I think, because Miss This by way of introduction to "Bruno's Dream," Miss Murdoch's best novel since "The Bell," or, to put it more modestly, the one that pleased me most. Or so with rising excitement, to be plunged into anticlimax, as the plot seemed to petrify into formula. One read each in turn for the first 100 pages Then, from "A Severed Head" onward, it seemed to some of us that the nature of her talents was equaled only by her capacity for misusing them. ![]() She began, fifteen years ago, by astonishing and delighting with the prodigality of her Ris Murdoch has never been an easy novelist to assess. ![]()
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