Аннотация:In her works, Iris Murdoch remained faithful to the traditions
of English literature. A Gothic novel that used the archaic mythology of the
British Isles: Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, medieval Christian mysticism in the literature
of the second half of the twentieth century remained one of the few life-giving
sources for the preservation and development of the novel genre, which the
writer thought about in her essays. In the later novels The Black Prince (1973),
A Word Child (1975) and The Sea, the Sea (1978), Murdoch widely uses Gothic
elements to study the psychology of modern man and the problems facing him
in society. The article examines in detail the spatio-temporal organization of the
neo-Gothic Murdoch novels and the typology of the images of classical villains.
Gothic makes Murdoch novels attractive to the general reader and allows her
to preach her philosophical views.