Loitering with Intent (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Spark
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: 1949-1950
- Setting: London, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Freedom, Philosophy or philosophers, Power, personal or social, Suicide, Authors or writers, Literature, Autobiography, Art or artists, 1940’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Novelists, England or English people, Adultery, Truth, Greed, Creative process, London, Truthfulness and falsehood, Theft
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Fleur Talbot, a novelist about twenty- five years old. She has an appetite for living and observing. She thinks how good it is to be a woman and an artist in the middle of the twentieth century. She completes her first novel, Warrender Chase, while working as a secretary to Sir Quentin Oliver, transcribing, improving, and even adding to the memoirs of his society, the Autobiographical Association. Her inventions sometimes turn out to be true, and the members like them. Although she recognizes that her job might influence her novel, she is astonished...
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