Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti

"Since the revelation of Iris Murdoch''s (1919-1999) affair with Elias Canetti (1905-1994), scholarship on their relationship has been largely biographical, focusing in particular on Canetti''s alleged role as the real-life model for some of Murdoch''s most invidious protagonists. Little research, however, has been done on the extensive common ground between the two writers'' literary projects. In...