“At my age, you live in your mind”: Reviewing the past in Bruno´s Dream by Iris Murdoch
This paper analyses the way in which the ageing Bruno, the central character of Iris Murdoch´s Bruno´s Dream (1969), approaches his death and confronts the meaning of finitude. His last stage of life is understood as a time of reminiscence that brings up past conflicts. This study offers an opportun...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Repositorio: | e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/24799 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24799 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 Filología 57 Lingüística ageing studies finitude life review Iris Murdoch love estudios de la edad finitud revisión de la vida amor |
| Sumario: | This paper analyses the way in which the ageing Bruno, the central character of Iris Murdoch´s Bruno´s Dream (1969), approaches his death and confronts the meaning of finitude. His last stage of life is understood as a time of reminiscence that brings up past conflicts. This study offers an opportunity to explore the moral and psychological aspects of guilt, regret and forgiveness, which trigger the process that Robert N. Butler called “life review.” It also aims to examine Murdoch’s philosophical concepts about love and her idea of unself. |
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