Where to start with Muriel Spark: a guide to her best novels
2023年8月7日 · The result might be Spark’s strangest book of all, blending the existential despair of William Golding’s Pincher Martin with the comedy of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman – and one other secret that unites those books. ‘Mrs Spark does not want to know us any more,’ wrote one critic reviewing it.
Still in her prime - Prospect
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Britain saw a great flourishing of new novelists: William Golding, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, Iris Murdoch, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, John Fowles and more. One of the more unusual was Muriel Spark. Born Muriel Camberg in Edinburgh in 1918, she was that not-too-common figure, a Jewish (rather, half Jewish) Scot.
13 The Validity of Authorship: Postwar British Metafiction from Muriel …
Berensmeyer, Ingo. "13 The Validity of Authorship: Postwar British Metafiction from Muriel Spark to William Golding" In Author Fictions: Narrative Representations of Literary Authorship since 1800, 279-300. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023.
Grimacing Catholicism: Muriel Spark’s Macabre Farce (1) and Muriel ...
In a series of short, scathing novels written after her conversion to catholicism (in 1954), Muriel Spark has carved out the devil’s share in English society today: her evil spirit gambols invisibly, or in the guise of someone with horns or cloven hooves, within tight circles infected with deadly sins shared by a whole category of individuals ...
William Golding (and later, J. G. Ballard and Anthony Burgess) ques-tioned the very nature of Britain’s new-found social consensus, asking whether the collective logic of wartime should also have sway over a peacetime society. For these writers, the people of the People’s War were already seeped in violence, making any state they built inevi-
Graham Greene, William Golding, and Muriel Spark are articulated by Prof. Kort into a theory of human place-relations, and he discloses how our understanding and engagement with place creates society, including moral, political, spiritual, physical, and emotional potentials. Three types or "sides" of place-relations are derived from the fictional
An Update on Muriel Spark’s Chinese Translations
2023年9月14日 · A year later, Jisheng Ren translated The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) – Spark’s most acclaimed novel, into Chinese and published it alongside the translated fiction of Angela Carter, V. S. Naipaul, William Golding, and David Storey.
English literature - WWII, Poetry, Novels | Britannica
The two most innovatory novelists to begin their careers soon after World War II were also religious believers— William Golding and Muriel Spark. In novels of poetic compactness, they frequently return to the notion of original sin—the idea that, in Golding’s words, “man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”
《泰晤士报》战后英国50名大作家 - 豆瓣
2020年5月28日 · 该报考虑了诸多因素，如 “写作质量、寿命、影响力持续时间的长短，自然也包括商业成功性”，但更看重的是 “ 作品和影响力的持久性 ”。 46 ．. 布鲁斯 查特温 ( Bruce Chatwin ) 47 ．. 爱丽丝 奥斯瓦尔德 ( Alice Oswald) 48 ．. 本杰明 柴福尼亚 ( Benjamin Zephaniah ) 49 ．. 罗斯玛丽 萨特克里夫 ( Rosemary Sutcliff ) 50 ．. 麦克尔 摩尔科克 ( Michael Moorcock )
BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 28/12/2009
2009年12月28日 · Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. The lives of Somerset Maugham, Muriel Spark and William Golding in a biography special. Biographer Selina Hastings on Somerset Maugham's secret life....