Muriel Spark RIP

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I have been slowly and sort-of chronologically making my way through her work over the past few years. Just now finishing up The Bachelors and wanted to drop in to say that this is a great, great book that no one ever talks about.

cwkiii, Monday, 26 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link

xp LOL

flopson, Monday, 26 December 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1bDNDoB0DQ

Recent BBC documentary - I wouldn't say its enormously insightful but still an enjoyable watch, and a reminder that I need to track down those books of hers which I never got around to.

.robin., Wednesday, 27 June 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link

Great thread, hadn't seen it before. I've only read Brodie so far, but impressed by her use of "spoilers" to turn attention this way and that, yet also undersells the characters---if you want to think and/or care about them in a certain way, there's plenty room. Although she does introduce us to some historical context, such as Brodie's being of the generation of women with not a lot of male contemporaries (because WWI), so previous expectations, pressures, possibilities were off-kilter, continuing into Depression and WWII at least.

dow, Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link

Also this thread:

RIP Muriel Spark

I've spent the last decade reading or re-reading her work. A joy.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link

Haven't read this yet, but Margaret Drabble on Spark: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/muriel-spark-margaret-drabble/

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:52 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

Just finishing up The Takeover. This book is completely bonkers in the best possible way.

cwkiii, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link

most of them are!

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link

Haha very true.

cwkiii, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link

Yup

U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link


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