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Article: Muriel Spark.(The English Novel In The Twentieth Century, part 10)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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Though she was to leave for ever her native Scotland at the age of nineteen - she married Mr. Spark bound for Africa - Muriel Uezzell Camberg was well schooled in the ways of Edinburgh. Something of its austere elegance remains in her memory. Muriel Spark, citizen of the world, is a writer of cities in each of which she searches for the particular and the universal. In her memorable opening to The Girls of Slender Means she recalls the London of 1945 as a victorious ruin. The detail of her observation has the precision of an anatomist and the lyrical realism of a contemporary Picture Post photograph: 'most of all,' she says of the blitzed houses, 'the staircases survived, ...
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