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‘Another world than this’: Muriel Spark's Postwar Investigations
Ist Teil von
The Yearbook of English studies, 2012-01, Vol.42, p.151-167
Ort / Verlag
Modern Humanities Research Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A couple of recent discussions aside, Muriel Spark's fiction is seldom read as articulating the ‘condition of England’ in the 1950s. Yet
Robinson
(1958) and
Memento Mori
(1959) containsocialobservers, representatives of the post-Imperial, self-investigative turn that owed something to Mass-Observation'ssocial research.The observation carried out in both novels showcases the dishonesties that hold their respective communities together. Such functionalopacitymay be key to democracies. However, its rendition in these works may also be read as a response to the impossibility of preparing for unexpected death, a paradox that drivesCold War politics.