In this appraisal, Kermode is incisive not only on Spark’s unique style and merit but on the fundamental premises of fiction. Her new novel “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” “ tone and material” to become “the best written of these superbly written books”. Spark’s first novel “The Comforters” “looks into the question of what kind of truth can be told in a novel” – it is “an inquiry into the way fictions work”. Reading her novels is, he writes, “a work of the imagination” they are shaped by the subjectivity of her characters (and also, therefore, her readers). Spark is known for the lightness and wit with which she wrote about serious themes Kermode also considers how Spark conveys fundamental truths. In this piece, the literary critic and theorist Frank Kermode considers the work of Muriel Spark in her most prolific era, as a new book about her is released by Derek Stanford.
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