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"Like being chained to a corpse, isn't it?" This is a memoir, not a biography, with ... more
obvious resonance. John Bayley, former Professor
of  English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch,
philosopher and author, have been married for more
than 45  years. She has shown the degenerative
effects of Alzheimer's Disease for the last four
years. The  words quoted above were not, needless
to say, his. He chronicles a shared experience
that can  no longer be shared except with those
outside of it, and as such is vital for him as he
copes,  rather than grieves. He purposefully blurs
the boundaries of past and present as he describes
the  marriage of two brilliant intellectuals,
determinedly unworldly and collegiate, mixing wine
and  water (they are serial dippers) throughout
Europe as they serenely move "closer and closer 
apart".   When Iris's intellect deteriorates her
dependency inevitably increases, and they are
"sailing into  the dark" (her words) until the end
of the book, when Bayley contends that the voyage
is over,  and they have both arrived somewhere. It
is the spiritual answer to her perpetual question:
"When  are we going?", and provides a quietly
uplifting resolution. John Bayley has written a
magnificent  paean to their love. Without
underplaying the realities of living with someone
with Alzheimer's, he  writes in a moving and
dignified way, without sentimentality, of a woman
rather than a condition,  who is still every bit
his wife, if even more his dependent. He believes
that their marriage released  the child in Iris;
now they watch Teletubbies together, wordlessly
secure. --David Vincent
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"Like being chained to a corpse, isn't it?" This is a memoir, not a biography, with ... more
obvious resonance. John Bayley, former  Professor
of English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch, 
philosopher and author, have been married for more
than  45 years. She has shown the degenerative
effects of  Alzheimer's Disease for the last four
years. The words  quoted above were not, needless
to say, his. He  chronicles a shared experience
that can no longer be  shared except with those
outside of it, and as such is  vital for him as he
copes, rather than grieves. He  purposefully blurs
the boundaries of past and present as  he
describes the marriage of two brilliant
intellectuals,  determinedly unworldly and
collegiate, mixing wine and  water (they are
serial dippers) throughout Europe as they 
serenely move "closer and closer apart." When
Iris's  intellect deteriorates her dependency
inevitably  increases, and they are "sailing into
the dark" (her  words) until the end of the book,
when Bayley contends  that the voyage is over, and
they have both arrived  somewhere. It is the
spiritual answer to her perpetual  question: "When
are we going?", and provides a quietly  uplifting
resolution. John Bayley has written a  magnificent
paean to their love. Without underplaying the 
realities of living with someone with Alzheimer's,
he  writes in a moving and dignified way, without 
sentimentality, of a woman rather than a
condition, who  is still every bit his wife, if
even more his dependent.  He believes that their
marriage released the child in  Iris; now they
watch Teletubbies together, wordlessly  secure.
--David Vincent
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"Like being chained to a corpse, isn't it?" This is a memoir, not a biography, with ... more
obvious resonance. John Bayley, former Professor
of  English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch,
philosopher and author, have been married for more
than 45  years. She has shown the degenerative
effects of Alzheimer's Disease for the last four
years. The  words quoted above were not, needless
to say, his. He chronicles a shared experience
that can  no longer be shared except with those
outside of it, and as such is vital for him as he
copes,  rather than grieves. He purposefully blurs
the boundaries of past and present as he describes
the  marriage of two brilliant intellectuals,
determinedly unworldly and collegiate, mixing wine
and  water (they are serial dippers) throughout
Europe as they serenely move "closer and closer 
apart".   When Iris's intellect deteriorates her
dependency inevitably increases, and they are
"sailing into  the dark" (her words) until the end
of the book, when Bayley contends that the voyage
is over,  and they have both arrived somewhere. It
is the spiritual answer to her perpetual question:
"When  are we going?", and provides a quietly
uplifting resolution. John Bayley has written a
magnificent  paean to their love. Without
underplaying the realities of living with someone
with Alzheimer's, he  writes in a moving and
dignified way, without sentimentality, of a woman
rather than a condition,  who is still every bit
his wife, if even more his dependent. He believes
that their marriage released  the child in Iris;
now they watch Teletubbies together, wordlessly
secure. --David Vincent
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"Like being chained to a corpse, isn't it?" This is a memoir, not a biography, with ... more
obvious resonance. John Bayley, former  Professor
of English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch, 
philosopher and author, have been married for more
than  45 years. She has shown the degenerative
effects of  Alzheimer's Disease for the last four
years. The words  quoted above were not, needless
to say, his. He  chronicles a shared experience
that can no longer be  shared except with those
outside of it, and as such is  vital for him as he
copes, rather than grieves. He  purposefully blurs
the boundaries of past and present as  he
describes the marriage of two brilliant
intellectuals,  determinedly unworldly and
collegiate, mixing wine and  water (they are
serial dippers) throughout Europe as they 
serenely move "closer and closer apart." When
Iris's  intellect deteriorates her dependency
inevitably  increases, and they are "sailing into
the dark" (her  words) until the end of the book,
when Bayley contends  that the voyage is over, and
they have both arrived  somewhere. It is the
spiritual answer to her perpetual  question: "When
are we going?", and provides a quietly  uplifting
resolution. John Bayley has written a  magnificent
paean to their love. Without underplaying the 
realities of living with someone with Alzheimer's,
he  writes in a moving and dignified way, without 
sentimentality, of a woman rather than a
condition, who  is still every bit his wife, if
even more his dependent.  He believes that their
marriage released the child in  Iris; now they
watch Teletubbies together, wordlessly  secure.
--David Vincent
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"Like being chained to a corpse, isn't it?" This is a memoir, not a biography, with ... more
obvious resonance. John Bayley, former Professor
of  English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch,
philosopher and author, have been married for more
than 45  years. She has shown the degenerative
effects of Alzheimer's Disease for the last four
years. The  words quoted above were not, needless
to say, his. He chronicles a shared experience
that can  no longer be shared except with those
outside of it, and as such is vital for him as he
copes,  rather than grieves. He purposefully blurs
the boundaries of past and present as he describes
the  marriage of two brilliant intellectuals,
determinedly unworldly and collegiate, mixing wine
and  water (they are serial dippers) throughout
Europe as they serenely move "closer and closer 
apart".   When Iris's intellect deteriorates her
dependency inevitably increases, and they are
"sailing into  the dark" (her words) until the end
of the book, when Bayley contends that the voyage
is over,  and they have both arrived somewhere. It
is the spiritual answer to her perpetual question:
"When  are we going?", and provides a quietly
uplifting resolution. John Bayley has written a
magnificent  paean to their love. Without
underplaying the realities of living with someone
with Alzheimer's, he  writes in a moving and
dignified way, without sentimentality, of a woman
rather than a condition,  who is still every bit
his wife, if even more his dependent. He believes
that their marriage released  the child in Iris;
now they watch Teletubbies together, wordlessly
secure. --David Vincent
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Love has everything and nothing to do with it
Review of Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch - John Bayley by badgirl99

Advantages: Moving, intelligently written
Disadvantages: Not as absorbing as I hoped

It disappoints me to have to give such a sad story just three stars. But I have to be honest and for me, it just wasn't what I was hoping for. I bought this book as a present for my mum as I'd read great reviews about it and having gone through the terrible illness of Alzheimers with my grandma and now my grandad, I was interested to read about someone else's experience of it. I read the book and still can't quite work out how I feel about it, as ...
...is an extremely intelligent man but yet, there's just something missing. In this biography of a sort, John Bayley takes it upon himself to tell the story of his wife, Iris Muroch (1919 - 1999). The novel is split into two parts: "Then" and the substantially smaller "Now". Evidently, "Then" describes how they met and how they grew in their life together before Iris developed Alzheimers and in "Now", John attempts to explain how things are after Iris ... Read review

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Author: John Bayley

Title: Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch

Genre: Biography

Type: Non-Fiction

ISBN: 0349112150; 0349114293; 0715628488; 0715631594

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