A SEVERED HEAD

Book ID/图书代码： 00470005B05399

English Summary/英文概要： Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 馬丁相信自己可以同時擁有一個漂亮的妻子以及一個可愛的情人。可是當他的妻子安東尼婭突然棄他而去，投入心理分析師的懷抱時，馬丁陷入了一場劇烈的情感再教育。(XMM)

Awards/获奖情况：The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1969): The Nice and the Good

The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1970): Bruno’s Dream

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1973) : The Black Prince

The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1973): The Black Prince

Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1974): The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1978): The Sea, the Sea

The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1985): The Good Apprentice

The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1987): The Book and the Brotherhood

About the Author/作者介绍： Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St Anne’s college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year’s Honours List. She died in February 1999.
艾麗絲•默多克女爵士（Iris Murdoch，1919-1999年），愛爾蘭小說家。在作品中她審視了自由、愛、性、道德以及命運之間的關係。她以敘述技巧、機智和獨創性而著稱。她的小說經常關注哲學的困境，情節構思精細而複雜，人物具有象徵意義。《鐘》（The Bell）（1958年）是她最知名的作品，書中描寫了一個世俗宗教團體的明爭暗鬥。默多克出生於都柏林，1942年畢業于牛津大學，1987年被授予大英帝國女勳爵頭銜。她一生創作頗豐,有二十五部小說、六個劇本、一冊詩集及五部哲學著作問世。由其丈夫約翰•貝雷(John Bayley)所著的回憶錄《挽歌獻愛妻》改編而成的電影《艾麗絲的情書》,在第五十二屆柏林電影節上備受追捧,轟動一時。

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