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Article: Muriel Spark, RIP.(Notes & Comments: May 2006)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- New Criterion
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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It was on Easter Saturday that we heard the sad news that the Scottish poet and novelist Muriel Spark had died, age 88, in Florence (her adopted home many years). We thought, "How suitable that it should have been on Good Friday." As a Catholic convert, Spark would doubtless have appreciated the coincidence of dying on the most solemn day in the liturgical calendar. As a novelist with an eye for the eldritch realities that everywhere impinge upon the quotidian expanse of our lives, she would also have savored the awesome mystery operating behind the usual stuff of hospitals, doctors, and sick beds.
Awesomeness inhabiting the everyday was at the center of Spark's ...
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