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Title: The Comforters (REVIVED MODERN CLASSIC) by Muriel Spark ISBN: 0-8112-1285-8 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Spark's First Endures
Comment: Muriel Spark's first novel, THE COMFORTERS, is a genuine classic. The intrustion of the "literary device" is marvelous because it is anything but a gimmick. For one thing, the mysterious metafictional typewriter (from an author composing a novel you might be reading) is inspired by experiences Spark describes in her autobiography. Aural hallucinations contributed to two masterpieces of English prose around this time--Evelyn Waugh's THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD takes a different approach, less cosmic and perhaps more comic. In both cases, however, the voices are central to the novel, and provide a marvelous opportunity for conveying a unique (and, I think, in both cases, -true-) view of our world.
The other undercurrent here is Spark's conversion to Roman Catholicism. Caroline's attitude may not be Spark's, but I hope it is--skewering irritating modern Pharisees inside the Church as gleefully as those outside of it.
Rating: 4
Summary: What's it all about?
Comment: This book's weakest point--a literary gimmick--kicks in early: a writer begins to hear a voice narrating her life, accompanied by, you guessed it, the clicking of typewriter keys. However, as annoying as this trite little device is, it has all but disappeared midway through the book, letting a somewhat more complex concept take over. The plot itself involves smuggling and tangled relationships, with a wink at English Catholicism. In the end, I've given this book four stars primarily because I enjoyed the setting, somewhere between the worlds of "Lucky Jim" and "Excellent Women."
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Title: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark ISBN: 0811214389 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark ISBN: 0811214745 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Abbess of Crewe: A Modern Morality Tale by Muriel Spark ISBN: 0811212963 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Bachelors (New Directions Classics,) by Muriel Spark ISBN: 0811214249 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Driver's Seat (The New Directions Bibelots) by Muriel Spark ISBN: 0811212718 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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