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Dame Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Murdoch was awarded the Booker Prize in 1978 for THE SEA, THE SEA a finely detailed novel about the power of love and loss. Retired actor, playwright and director Charles Arrowby, over 60, is overwhelmed when he meets his first love after several decades apart. THE SEA, THE SEA is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt him as he begins to write his memoirs. Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive her characters - the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world.

According to Xenophon's Anabasis, "The Sea! The Sea!" (Thalatta! Thalatta!) was the shout of triumphant exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and realised they were saved from near-certain death.The title may also allude to a line in Paul Valéry's poem Le Cimetiere Marin (The Graveyard by the Sea): La mer, la mer, toujours recommencee (The Sea, The Sea forever re-starting).

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