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Under the Net : ウィキペディア英語版 | Under the Net
''Under the Net'' was the first novel of Iris Murdoch, published in 1954. Set in London, it is the story of a struggling young writer, Jake Donaghue. Its mixture of the philosophical and the picaresque has made it one of Murdoch's most popular. It was dedicated to Raymond Queneau. When Jake leaves Madge's flat in Chapter 1, two of the books he mentions taking are ''Murphy'' by Samuel Beckett, and ''Pierrot mon ami'' by Queneau, both of which are echoed in this story. The epigraph, from John Dryden's ''Secular Masque'', refers to the way in which the main character is driven from place to place by his misunderstandings. In 2005, the novel was chosen by ''TIME'' magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.〔(The Complete List | TIME Magazine – ALL-TIME 100 Novels )〕 The editors of Modern Library named the work as one of the greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century.〔(The Modern Library | 100 Best | Novels )〕 ==Explanation of the title== The "net" in question is the net of abstraction, generalization, and theory. In Chapter 6, a quotation from Jake's book ''The Silencer'' includes the passage: "All theorizing is flight. We must be ruled by the situation itself and this is unutterably particular. Indeed it is something to which we can never get close enough, however hard we may try as it were to crawl under the net."〔Dennis Wrong (2005) ''The Persistence of the Particular'', chapter 1: The irreducible particularities of human experience, Transaction Publishers ISBN 0-7658-0272-4 〕
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