The Message To The Planet

Iris Murdoch

The Message To The Planet
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 May 2013
Pages
576
ISBN
9780099583288

The Message To The Planet

Iris Murdoch

A late novel from one of the twentieth century’s most important writers - a story of the relationships that restore meaning in a seemingly random universe.

For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind.

Luden’s friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found.

But is he a genius, a hero struggling at the bounds of human knowledge? Is he seeking God, or is he just another victim of the Holocaust, which casts its shadow upon him and upon Ludens, both of them Jewish?

Can human thinking discover the foundations of human consciousness?

Iris Murdoch’s endlessly inventive imagination has touched a fundamental question of our time.

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