UNDER THE NET

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starl ets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translat ion work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is ca ptivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of ...[Read more]