The Flight from the Enchanter: A Story of Love and Power - Softcover

Murdoch, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140017704 ISBN 13: 9780140017700

Publisher: Penguin, 1985

Synopsis

A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their god. But his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment.

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Review:

"A spirited fantasia in several keys...brilliant, witty and original" (Sunday Times)

"Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit" (Spectator)

From the Publisher:

'Brilliant, witty and original' Sunday Times
'Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit' Cyril Connolly

The story of a group of people who love and fear the magician who affects all their lives: the ravishing and eccentric young Annette who, after swinging on a chandilier, runs away from her finishing school to enter the School of Life, and learns a good deal more than she bargained for: the fierce and melancholy Rosa, the mistress of two Polish brothers: her brother, editor of a down-at-heel magazine: the scholar, Peter Saward, obsessed by an indecipherale ancient script: Rainborough, a civil servant, struggling in the toils of his secretary. Their lives revolve around the mysterious figure of Mischa Fox, a frightening, yet also touching, figure of power. Each is posessed by some person, idea, illusion or object. Each tries to break the spell, to flee the enchanter.

The story moves through a series of episodes which are as vivid and paradoxical as dreams, where the normal suddenly deviates into the sinister, the beautiful into the grotesque.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140017704
• ISBN 13: 9780140017700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288