Une'Tete Coupee

By Iris Murdoch

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, love, Classic Literature, Fiction, marriage, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), relationships, Fiction in English, Literature, friends and lovers

Description: Martin Lynch-Gibbon 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. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.