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SUMMARY:A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
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DESCRIPTION:For August\, we enjoy London in the wild sixties:\n\nhttps://en
	.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Severed_Head\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sever
	ed_Head]\n\nA novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in l
	ove\, from the\nauthor of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea\, The Sea
	 Martin Lynch-Gibson\nbelieves he can possess both a beautiful wife and a 
	delightful lover. But when\nhis wife\, Antonia\, suddenly leaves him for h
	er psychoanalyst\, Martin is plunged\ninto an intensive emotional reeducat
	ion. He attempts to behave beautifully and\nsensibly. Then he meets a woma
	n whose demonic splendor at first repels him and\nlater arouses a consumin
	g and monstrous passion.\n\nAs macabre as a Jacobean tragedy\, as frivolou
	s as a Restoration comedy\, Iris\nMurdoch’s fifth novel takes sombre theme
	s – adultery\, incest\, castration\,\nviolence and suicide – and yet succe
	eds in making of them a book that is\nbrilliantly enjoyable.\n\nThis meeti
	ng will take place outside at the Neckarwiese. We usually find a shady\nsp
	ot across from the Quinckstraße.
URL:https://events.kassel.social/event/a-severed-head-iris-murdoch
GEO:49.4118653;8.6829758
LOCATION:Uferstraße - Uferstraße\, Heidelberg\, Baden-Württemberg\, Germany
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:book club,books,bookclub,Heidelberg
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>For August, we enjoy London in the wild six
	ties:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sever
	ed_Head">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Severed_Head</a></p><p>A novel ab
	out the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author o
	f the Booker Prize-winning novel&nbsp;<em>The Sea, The Sea</em> Martin Lyn
	ch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful l
	over. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalys
	t, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts 
	to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic sp
	lendor at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous pas
	sion.</p><p>As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoratio
	n comedy, Iris Murdoch’s fifth novel takes sombre themes – adultery, inces
	t, castration, violence and suicide – and yet succeeds in making of them a
	 book that is brilliantly enjoyable.</p><p>This meeting will take place ou
	tside at the Neckarwiese. We usually find a shady spot across from the Qui
	nckstraße.</p>
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