Spark, Muriel (Vol. 2) - Spark, Muriel 1918–
Spark, Muriel 1918–
A Scottish novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, and biographer, Mrs. Spark is a master at perceiving horror and comedy almost simultaneously. Her best-known works are The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of Slender Means. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Muriel Spark's four novels—The Comforters (1957), Robinson (1958), Memento Mori (1959), and The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)—are so involved with the eccentric event and the odd personality that they have virtually no content. Memento Mori, for example, is concerned with octogenarians who reveal their former vagaries, and The Ballad of Peckham Rye revolves around the fortunes of a modern-day Panurge. Miss Spark's novels are a sport, light to the point of froth. She can write about murder, betrayal, deception, and adultery as though these were the norms of a crazy-quilt...
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