Dame Muriel Spark (Feb. 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) “an arcane puzzle in the mapping of contemporary literature” (Sawada 11), occupies an important place among the post-war British novelists. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Quite early in her life she decided to adopt writing as a profession and began writing seriously after the war. Spark started her writing career with poetry and literary criticism, under her married name. Spark justified her choice of married surname over paternal surname in her autobiography Curriculum Vitae, she recorded, “Camberg was a good name, but comparatively flat. Spark seemed to have some ingredient of life and of fun” (132). Although Muriel Spark is Edinburgh, Scotland born, she had a propensity throughout her life to visit foreign countries. It almost appears that she was prevailed to feel more comfortable abroad. She penned following statement in an essay “Edinburg-Born” in Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, about her birthplace in connection to her eviction:
Edinburgh is the place that I, a constitutional exile, am essentially exiled from. I spent the first 18 years of my life, during …show more content…
Its not only the socio-political world events, which made Spark think to write about in her novels but the personal life experiences and people also gave her inspiration to write. Spark is a writer with an innovative approach to reality and she has always been reluctant to explore publically the facts of her own life in first-rate detail. Spark proffers to let her fiction speak for itself. Being a Catholic convert she is not an overtly confessional writer, so when she uses raw material of her personal life she plains it into artistic shape. Spark’s autobiographical heroine, Fleur Talbot, represents her composer in Loitering with
Edinburgh is the place that I, a constitutional exile, am essentially exiled from. I spent the first 18 years of my life, during …show more content…
Its not only the socio-political world events, which made Spark think to write about in her novels but the personal life experiences and people also gave her inspiration to write. Spark is a writer with an innovative approach to reality and she has always been reluctant to explore publically the facts of her own life in first-rate detail. Spark proffers to let her fiction speak for itself. Being a Catholic convert she is not an overtly confessional writer, so when she uses raw material of her personal life she plains it into artistic shape. Spark’s autobiographical heroine, Fleur Talbot, represents her composer in Loitering with