The Absent Satirist: The Strange Case of Muriel Spark by Ema Jelínková

“…Since Spark came very close to contradicting many of her previous claims and findings during her dynamic development, I am obliged to utilize novels from different periods, The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), along with The Abbess of Crewe (1974), to find out whether any method can be derived from her apparent inconsistency. …”
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