Annotation. The article scientifically substantiated scientific and theoretical approaches to the work of Iris Murdoch. In world literary studies, studies have been conducted on such issues as the depression that occurred in the cultural life of Western Europe after World War II by the English writer Iris  Murdoch, after the achievements of science in the seventies of the last century, the erosion of various Western traditions, the adaptation of classical English culture to the achievements in modern world literary criticism novels created by Iris  Murdoch, spiritual the world of characters in them, a person’s need for self-awareness is the basis of social interpretations, the need to study the problems of describing the existence of real life. 

Key words: literature. Creativity, characters, novel, mythical views, modernism, postmodernism, spiritual world, realistic image, processes.