Under the Net. Escape from the Wizard
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Under the Net. Escape from the Wizard
14.99 €
The novel Under the Net, Murdoch's debut in fiction, is one of her best-known works, which remains still contemporary thanks to the image of the protagonist Jake Donaghue.
Translator and novelist Jake is smart, ironic, talented, but lazy, and has the amazing property of simply floating along with the flow of life, not so much not knowing how to, but simply not wanting to fight fate. He does not care at all how to make a living - whether it is cheap literary day labor, or the hard work of an orderly in the hospital. At most, which he is ready to puzzle - looking for an inexpensive apartment. However, an unexpected meeting with a young woman named Anna Quentin becomes fateful for Jake - his life begins to become entangled in a network of striking events, taking an increasingly unexpected, almost surreal turn ... "Escape from the Wizard". Misha Fox - an extraordinary man, not that imagined himself a magician who likes to play human destinies, or actually possessing some mystical power over human souls. Surrounding people are unable to get rid of his influence and obediently obey all the manipulations, because it is worth Fox to touch one of the threads, as the whole puppet theater of living marionettes comes into motion. But is all this in reality? Perhaps Misha Fox - just a convenient excuse not to control his own life, put his hands down and go with the flow? Perhaps the people mesmerized by him have invented their own "wizard"?
Translator and novelist Jake is smart, ironic, talented, but lazy, and has the amazing property of simply floating along with the flow of life, not so much not knowing how to, but simply not wanting to fight fate. He does not care at all how to make a living - whether it is cheap literary day labor, or the hard work of an orderly in the hospital. At most, which he is ready to puzzle - looking for an inexpensive apartment. However, an unexpected meeting with a young woman named Anna Quentin becomes fateful for Jake - his life begins to become entangled in a network of striking events, taking an increasingly unexpected, almost surreal turn ... "Escape from the Wizard". Misha Fox - an extraordinary man, not that imagined himself a magician who likes to play human destinies, or actually possessing some mystical power over human souls. Surrounding people are unable to get rid of his influence and obediently obey all the manipulations, because it is worth Fox to touch one of the threads, as the whole puppet theater of living marionettes comes into motion. But is all this in reality? Perhaps Misha Fox - just a convenient excuse not to control his own life, put his hands down and go with the flow? Perhaps the people mesmerized by him have invented their own "wizard"?
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- All books in the series Classics Library