Jackson s Dilema

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in allusion...With sheer Shakespearean wackiness, Murdoch has concocted a role-switching farce and cast it with contemporary upper-class twits...Clever and complex as this all is, ultimately there's too much of a muchness. A longtime fan of Iris Murdoch, I may finally have overdosed--or perhaps she has. Throughout the novel, Murdoch displays her usual charming, fussy impatience with narrative graces. But she also lapses into elaborate explanation, wooden conversation, mythic shorthand, and cultural stereotype. In her other fiction, people are driven by ideas. in 'Jackson's Dilemma' characters ARE ideas

In her 26th novel, the British philosopher-novelist Iris Murdoch has come up with a work as crammed with invention, as multitudinous in its range of characters and as rich in the details of plot as she has ever written. There isn't the slightest sign that Murdoch's magical powers are waning...Reading 'Jackson's Dilemma,' you sense that the author is afire with her story, which moves so fast and so confidently through its 250 pages that the novel is almost all plot, no decoration, no reflection. Murdoch's narrative grip is so strong that the tale can well afford to be so spare in the telling..."