The Comforters (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Spark
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: London and the surrounding countryside
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Suffering, Authors or writers, Polygamy or bigamy, England or English people, Christianity, Mysteries, London, Catholics or Catholic Church, Smuggling or smugglers, Precious metals or stones, Church or churches, Diamonds, Gems
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Caroline Rose, a woman of about thirty with a Cambridge education. She is thin, angular, sharp, and inquiring, well-dressed and good-looking. After converting to Catholicism, she renounces sex, stops living with her lover, Laurence Manders, and goes on a religious retreat. When she hears ghostly voices and a typewriter, she thinks that she is mad but soon guesses that the typewriter is typing the novel of her life and the lives of others. She wonders if this mysterious “author” is a figure from some other dimension—perhaps a soul from purgatory,...
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