![]() ![]() He stated that any attempt to talk about, explain, or write a truth is similar to placing a net over the truth. Although people might conceive of them, such truths are diminished by the limitations of language. ![]() Wittgenstein believed that the deepest truths can never be fully verbalised. Our first clue to its depth is the title, Under the Net, which is a metaphor used by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his famous work, “Tractatus”, of 1921. Some critics now view it as her best work, and an excellent introduction to the philosophy of Existentialism. However, appearances can be deceptive, and a closer look reveals that this novel is far more than that. Certainly it can be read that way, as a humorous tale about a Bohemian young Irish man in London, Jake Donoghue, who occasionally earns a crust by translating trashy French novels, but by and large has avoided getting a job, and as the blurb says “sponges off his friends”. ![]() Yet Under the Net is sometimes dismissed as a light comic piece, in comparison with her later, lengthier novels. As well as books on moral philosophy she wrote twenty-six critically acclaimed novels, one of which won the prestigious Booker prize. Under the Net, from 1954, was the first published novel by Iris Murdoch, the distinguished academic, and professor of moral philosophy at Oxford University. ![]()
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