By Iris Murdoch
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his overdue fifties, has eventually left his boring place of work task as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the rustic, yet predatory neighbors and family sprint his hopes of a relaxed retirement. he's stricken by his melancholic sister, who has made up our minds to come back reside with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the previous; her antisocial brother, who desires cash and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's good friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a more youthful, deplorably extra winning writer of industrial fiction. The ever-mounting motion contains marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, homicide, and due means of legislations. Bradley attempts to flee from all of it yet fails, resulting in a violent climax and a coda that casts moving views on all that has preceded.
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Lo asesina la realidad? Él ¿sólo puede vivir en su fantasía? ¿Qué triunfa, al fin? ¿La realidad, la realidad, áspera y cruel? 29 Hay quienes oponen a Cervantes y don Quijote. Cervantes sería un hombre racional, en lucha contra la España atrasada de su tiempo; en cambio, don Quijote sería no sólo un loco, sino un hombre del pasado, que cree en los encantamientos, los duendes y los magos; que intenta restablecer la Orden de la Caballería Andante, ya siglos atrás desaparecida. Pero oponer a Cervantes y don Quijote es idea sin sentido.
La realidad, la realidad, áspera y cruel? 29 Hay quienes oponen a Cervantes y don Quijote. Cervantes sería un hombre racional, en lucha contra la España atrasada de su tiempo; en cambio, don Quijote sería no sólo un loco, sino un hombre del pasado, que cree en los encantamientos, los duendes y los magos; que intenta restablecer la Orden de la Caballería Andante, ya siglos atrás desaparecida. Pero oponer a Cervantes y don Quijote es idea sin sentido. Lo único que se puede decir es que todo personaje, cuando es verosímil, supera al autor que lo crea.
Poco tiempo después, don Quijote muere, rodeado del amor de los suyos. Lo llora, con dulces y a un tiempo amargas palabras, su fiel escudero, Sancho. ¿Qué sucede? ¿Por qué don Quijote ha de volver a ser Alonso Quijano, el Bueno? ¿Lo asesina la realidad? Él ¿sólo puede vivir en su fantasía? ¿Qué triunfa, al fin? ¿La realidad, la realidad, áspera y cruel? 29 Hay quienes oponen a Cervantes y don Quijote. Cervantes sería un hombre racional, en lucha contra la España atrasada de su tiempo; en cambio, don Quijote sería no sólo un loco, sino un hombre del pasado, que cree en los encantamientos, los duendes y los magos; que intenta restablecer la Orden de la Caballería Andante, ya siglos atrás desaparecida.