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18 dic 2007 · A swift, blithe comedy of sexual and creative jealousy plays out on the grounds of a dubious finishing school in Dame Spark's gem of a novel, her 22nd. College Sunrise, founded by would-be novelist Rowland Mahler and his practical wife, Nina Parker, is a mobile institution (currently situated in Lausanne) at which very little of use is taught.
The Finishing School is also a novel about writing a novel (NOT in the same league as Loitering With Intent, be warned). Muriel Spark always has plenty important things to say about people, and situations, and relationships, human nature, creativity, and so on, and her observations usually fascinate with their astuteness and their wit.
- Muriel Spark
The Finishing School zips along, but the very short chapters and sections do relate a good deal. Without much elaboration, Spark nevertheless conveys her scenes -- and this odd school-world -- well. There is, ultimately, not quite enough to it, but as fast entertainment the novella is surprisingly rich, and there's a good deal here that is quite fun.
When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions begin to run high. A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, The Finishing School is the perfect natural partner to Muriel Spark's most famous novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
The slightness of Spark's 23nd novel is more than compensated by the sharpness of its observations on creativity and competitiveness. Like other British comedies of manners, "The Finishing School" is slim of plot and of character; instead, it's a work to be savored for its conciseness, its cynicism, and its occasional mean-spiritedness.
- Muriel Spark
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