Ο πίνακας που αγαπούσε η Άϊρις Μέρντοχ

Ο πίνακας που αγαπούσε η Άϊρις Μέρντοχ

INTERVIEWER

Do you see a painting you are particularly interested in and think, I might be able to use that some day in a novel, or I'd like to use it because it attracts and interests me?

MURDOCH

The novel often indicates a painting during the process of creating the characters. Somehow the character will lead to the painting. A great painting that I have only recently seen—it lives in Czechoslovakia—is Titian's Flaying of Marsyas. He was over ninety when he painted it. This painting gives me very much, though I have only referred to it indirectly.