Spark's Europe: Not to Disturb: The Takeover: The Only Problem - Brossura

Spark, Muriel

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ISBN 10: 1782117652 ISBN 13: 9781782117650

Casa editrice: Canongate Canons, 2016

Riassunto

From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some of the odder specimens of human nature abounding there.

By turns savage, witty and profound, Spark's Europe reaffirms Muriel Spark as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century.

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"She shares with Barbara Pym and Iris Murdoch the magical ability to write about people from whom in life we would run a mile, but who are made fascinating by their author's perceptions" (Spectator)

"My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème" (IAN RANKIN)

"Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive" (JOHN UPDIKE New Yorker)

"The care with which she uses words is matched by a gloriously carefree attitude. It's all part of her sanity, her breezy authorial self-confidence; and because of this I think that reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso" (Daily Telegraph)

"A wholly original presence in modern literature" (ANDREW MOTION)

"A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas" (New York Times Book Review)

"She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius" (A N WILSON Spectator) --Spectator

"Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit" (New Yorker) --New Yorker

"There can be few novelists who command such a formidable technique" (Financial Times) --Financial Times

L'autore

Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Canongate Canons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782117652
• ISBN 13: 9781782117650
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia