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Muriel Spark was an artist through and through.(The Week)(Brief article)
* Muriel Spark was an artist through and through. She saw the world as a rich and wonderful provider of stories. The human comedy captivated her. A Catholic, she knew about Good and Evil, and wasn't afraid to depict them; the Devil himself appears in one of her scintillating early novels, and the figure of Death in another. She took big risks in her writing, and her wit and originality always pulled them off. Most remarkable was her deftness, the light and almost throwaway touch that leaves unsaid as much as it says. In person she was trim, beautifully dressed, politely but attentively ...
- Muriel Spark.(Author Profile)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today September 1, 2004 700+ words
...about her, visit the Muriel Spark Web site (murielspark...stimulant and start." --Muriel Spark, from the foreword to All the Poems of Muriel Spark "Eloquence, wit and...diminishes, her ideas." --New York Times Book Review
- Muriel Spark and the biography she tried to suppress The life story of a...
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London PETER ALLEN July 19, 2009 700+ words
...devotion and betrayal dominated Muriel Spark's work throughout a glittering...and 17 years in the making, Muriel Spark - The Biography is billed as a...and after high-living years in New York and Rome, she moved to the Italian...
- Theorizing Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Stannard, Martin July 1, 2004 700+ words
Theorizing Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction. Ed. By MARTIN MCQUILLAN. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi+245 pp. 45...suggests, a theoretical approach to Muriel Spark's work is 'long overdue' (p...
- The crimes of Miss Jean Brodie; She disowned her son, insulted everyone she...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) August 15, 2009 700+ words
...the title role, brought the novelist Muriel Spark to the attention of the whole world...a London bedsit, was whisked off to New York, where she was transformed overnight...permed Scottish frump into an elegant New York socialite, mixing with the literary...
- Muriel Spark.(The English Novel In The Twentieth Century, part 10)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Heptonstall, Geoffrey October 1, 1996 700+ words
...austere elegance remains in her memory. Muriel Spark, citizen of the world, is a writer...is the city itself. As a novelist, Muriel Spark is perpetually alert to the telling...with an undertone of malicious relish. Muriel Spark is powerfully aware of the good and...
- Muriel Spark.(Muriel Spark, novelist)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 22, 2006 700+ words
Dame Muriel Spark, novelist, died on April 13th, aged 88 AS SHE lay on the divan...difficulty with Helena. Caroline, on another plane of existence, was Muriel Spark. She was trying to scrape a living by writing in London in the mid...
- "[A] virginal tongue hold": Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland and Muriel...
- Magazine article from: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature Nixon, Jude V. June 22, 2005 700+ words
...That attraction continued through Muriel Spark, who also saw herself as an aesthete...Pound, and Plath. Yet the case for Muriel Spark has been entirely overlooked. The Hopkins...then, traces Hopkins's influence on Muriel Spark, and in particular the way his epic...
- Miss Jean Brodie writer dies; MURIEL SPARK: 1918-2006.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) April 16, 2006 700+ words
Byline: By JANE HAMILTON DAME Muriel Spark, who wrote the classic, The Prime...co.uk mailfile Life and times of Muriel Spark Her first novel, The Comforters, was...touched. CAPTION(S): Prime time: Muriel Spark was most famous for the creation of...
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