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28 apr 2024 · Born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh in 1918, Muriel Spark was educated at James Gillespie's School for Girls and Heriot-Watt College. She's best known for her 1961 book The Prime of...
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2 mag 2024 · La Spark, di origine scozzese, convertitasi al cattolicesimo prima di iniziare a scrivere romanzi, visse a lungo in Italia, per la precisione in Toscana, dagli anni ‘60 alla morte, avvenuta nel 2006. Il titolo rivela che 'Memento mori' è un libro che parla di morte, o meglio di vecchiaia e di morte.
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18 apr 2024 · Expertly adapted novel about young women beginning adult life in the wake of the second world war is shadowed by trauma but full of life and merriment. Mark Fisher. Thu 18 Apr 2024 05.20 EDT....
27 apr 2024 · La porta di Mandelbaum. La storia di una giovane inglese giunta a Gerusalemme in cerca della propria identità religiosa ma che si sente subito estranea in un paese travagliato da conflitti insanabili. Un intenso romanzo di una delle principali scrittrici cattoliche inglesi del Novecento.
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28 apr 2024 · MURIEL Spark’s famous novel The Girls Of Slender Means commends itself to theatre writers in many ways. The book tells the story of a diverse group of young women, thrown together in a London hostel in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
15 apr 2024 · Kermode suggests that the interest of Spark ‘for non-believers’ is that even the pagans make plots and ‘seek and accept images of order’ (p. 274) so are well equipped to appreciate Spark’s alleged absolute structures. This is an argument that seems to imply its own converse, namely that Spark’s use of narrative is not
29 apr 2024 · If you’re Scottish and have ever studied literature on the university level, the chances are you’ve read a decent amount of Muriel Spark novels. At the very least, you’ve definitely checked out The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie , made famous by the film adaptation starring Maggie Smith.
