The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director 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. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and live in seclusion in a house by the sea. While there, he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic ideals is at the heart of the novel. After the farcical and abortive kidnapping of Mrs. Fitch by Arrowby, he is left to mull over her rejection in a self-obsessional and self-aggrandising manner over the space of several chapters. "How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality... Yes of course I was in love with my own youth... Who is one's first love?"
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Dame Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch foi uma escritora e filósofa britânica, nascida na Irlanda. Murdoch é conhecida por seus romances, que abordam questões como o bem e o mal, as relações sexuais, a moralidade e o poder do inconsciente. Seu primeiro romance publicado, Under the Net, foi selecionado em 1998 para a lista da Modern Library, "100 Melhores Romances em língua inglesa do século 20". Em 1987, Murdoch foi feita Dama Comandante da Ordem do Império Britânico. Em 2008, o The Times classificou a escritora em décimo segundo lugar, na lista dos "50 maiores escritores britânicos desde 1945". Um filme sobre sua relação com o esposo John Bayley e luta final contra o alzheimer (Iris, 2001, dirigido por Richard Eyre) recebeu vários prêmios.
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