IRIS MURDOCH’S “UNDER THE NET”: SYMBIOSIS OF PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL TRADITIONS WITH “THE OPEN WORK”

Iris Murdoch's creativity, a representative of the realistic and modernist novel, is distinguished by its connection with artistic experiments and its influence on newly emerging trends.It brings together the traditional philosophical novel with the already formed modernist novel, changes the canons of the traditional English novel, and takes the novel genre to a new level.The characteristic feature of the new symbiosis in I. Murdoch's creativity is, first of all, the combination of literary and philosophical directions, various trends, and various narrative techniques, the complete and comprehensive description of human destinies and existence, and complex reality.The article analyzes the novel "Under the Net" from this perspective, investigates and studies it in the light of the above-mentioned problems.The author of the article expresses his attitude to the philosophical ideas of J.P. Sartre and L. Wittgenstein used in the novel "Under the Net", identifying them as the features of the manifestation of I. Murdoch's novel.He notes that such an approach is a sign of connection with the traditions of the English philosophical novel.But at the same time, he emphasizes that I. Murdoch uses the concept of "the open work" -the narrative used by modernists.The principle of such an approach opens up a symbiosis of the philosophical novel and the "the open work" in I. Murdoch's authorial narrative.I. Murdoch uses traditional experience, integrates with them and creates new improvisational possibilities and poetic technologies.The author of the article sheds light on the ambiguous world of the novel of the writer, and puts forward innovations that can allow for a more complete understanding of the processes taking place in the modern literary and cultural environment as a whole.