Curriculum Vitae (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Spark
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1918-1957
- Setting: Edinburgh, Scotland; Africa; and London
- Principal Characters: Muriel Camberg Spark, Bernard Camberg, Sarah Elizabeth Maude Uezzell Camberg, Philip Camberg, Sydney Oswald Spark, Robin Spark, Christina Kay, Derek Stanford
- 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
If American biographers and autobiographers offend good taste and decorum by publishing works that are too often ponderous in detail and embarrassingly personal, British autobiographers too often frustrate their admirers by producing memoirs that are sketchy in detail and evasive about personal matters. This is certainly the case with Muriel Spark’s Curriculum vitae: Autobiography, which lives up to its title by being a brief overview of the first thirty-nine years of her life. Though another volume is promised, presumably picking up where this one leaves off, many readers will...
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