Curriculum Vitae (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Spark
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Family or family life, Poetry or poets, Mental illness, Novelists, Scotland or Scottish people
- Locales: Africa, London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland
John Updike said that he wrote his memoir, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, as a preemptive strike against biographers. In the introduction to CURRICULUM VITAE, Muriel Spark says “So many strange and erroneous accounts of parts of my life have been written since I became well known, that I felt it time to put the record straight.” In Spark’s case as in Updike’s, the resulting book far transcends its originating impulse. Still, Spark’s avowal of purpose shouldn’t be dismissed as a rhetorical ploy. “I determined to write nothing,” Spark says, “that cannot be supported by documentary...
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