Libro Recomendado: “Las voces (1957) de Muriel Spark“.

Caroline Rose es todo un personaje, una intelectual recién convertida a la fe católica que empieza a oír el tintineo de una máquina de escribir invisible, seguido de voces. ¿Es una experiencia religiosa o se está volviendo loca? Según la propia autora, –y según el prólogo de Ali Smith a la presente edición, muy recomendable, pero para leer después de haber concluido la lectura de la novela–, la idea del "espíritu de las teclas" que persigue a Caroline surge de las alucinaciones que Spark sufrió en su piel cuando siendo una escritora aún no publicada tomaba dexedrina en una época de trabajo intenso, conversión al catolicismo, pobreza y grave malnutrición.

Las voces es la primera novela, divertidísima y muy profunda, de la genial Muriel Spark, una de sus veintidós novelas escuetas, irreverentes, inteligentes, truculentas, llenos de guiños autobiográficos, situaciones disparatadas, reflexiones filosóficas y buenas dosis de metaficción, como sucede en Las voces. No dejéis pasar otras tres novelas de Spark, La entrometida, que ya recomendamos el verano pasado y Los solteros y Las señoritas de escasos medios, ambas publicadas recientemente en Impedimenta.

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225.2023 - #LibroRecomendado - #LasVoces - #MurielSpark.
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Las voces es la primera novela, divertidísima y muy profunda, de la genial Muriel Spark, una de sus veintidós novelas escuetas, irreverentes, inteligentes, truculentas, llenos de guiños autobiográficos, situaciones disparatadas, reflexiones filosóficas y buenas dosis de metaficción, como sucede en Las voces. No dejéis pasar otras tres novelas de Spark, La entrometida, que ya recomendamos el verano pasado y Los solteros y Las señoritas de escasos medios, ambas publicadas recientemente en Impedimenta.
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“Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.”

The letter – as imagined by her pupils – from Miss Jean Brodie to Mr Lowther, the music teacher. From Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
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Novelist Muriel Spark was born on this day in 1918. #birthdays #quote #MurielSpark

“I believe I have liberated the novel in many ways, showing how anything whatsoever can be narrated, any experience set down, including sheer damn cheek.” Muriel Spark, born #OTD in 1918 #MurielSpark #writing

THE CROOKED DIVIDEND:
Essays on Muriel Spark
ed. Gerard Carruthers & Helen Stoddart
Muriel Spark in postwar British culture, the influence of Scottish literary traditions on her work, how she explores gender, religion, politics, & more
Also available via Project MUSE
9/9
#Scottish #literature #books #MurielSpark
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/the-crooked-dividend/

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A Few Words of Indispensable Advice from Muriel Spark

“It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.”

— extracts from A GOOD COMB, by Muriel Spark, ed. Penelope Jardine
#Scottish #literature #books #MurielSpark
8/9
https://lithub.com/a-few-words-of-indispensible-advice-from-muriel-spark/

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AFTERWORDS: Muriel Spark
“One’s prime is elusive…”

Authors Ian Rankin & Zoë Strachan discuss Muriel Spark’s life & work with National Library of Scotland curator Colin McIlroy, & Spark’s friend & memoirist, Alan Taylor
#Scottish #literature #books #MurielSpark
7/9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018238

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“What hash Spark’s characters make of those eternal debates over unlikable characters or unlikable women. These women aren’t unlikable, these women are monstrous… Spark looks at her women like a wolf.”

— Parul Sehgal, writing in the New Yorker
#Scottish #literature #books #MurielSpark
6/9
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-muriel-spark-saw

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“Muriel Spark gave me a new model for a feminist hero […] It was about loitering—about the quiet subversiveness of simply existing in public as a woman.”

— Beth Jellicoe on Muriel Spark’s LOITERING WITH INTENT
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5/9
https://electricliterature.com/sometimes-the-most-feminist-thing-you-can-do-is-exist-as-a-woman-in-public/

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“Spark had just passed on to me an unexpected gift: the gift of the future. I’m beginning to think her books are themselves a kind of fruitfulness”

— Ali Smith on how Muriel Spark gives us the gift of the future
#Scottish #literature #books #MurielSpark
3/9
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/29/ali-smith-on-muriel-spark-at-100

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“I advocate the arts of satire and of ridicule. And I see no other living art form for the future. Ridicule is the only honourable weapon we have left.”

— Alan Taylor & William Boyd join Mariella Frostrup to share their love of Muriel Spark’s writing
#Scottish #literature #books #MurielSpark
2/9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09lxpyg

Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918

“With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…”

A 🎂🧵 …

1/9
THE BOTTLE IMP – Muriel Spark Special Issue
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue-22/

[1998] Booked - David Aaronovitch at the Hay Festival with Muriel Spark, Christopher Hitchens and Nigella Lawson.
Discussing The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, and PG Wodehouse.

https://youtu.be/eVLqjA98cFA

#OldBritishTelly #DavidAaronovitch #MurielSpark #ChristopherHitchens #NigellaLawson #Wodehouse

Review of #MurielSpark's 50s-set tale of London publishing and vendettas A Far Cry from Kensington (1988)

RT @calmgrove@twitter.com

The copy-editor and her nemesis https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2022/12/18/sken/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/calmgrove/status/1604356107513782274

#ElizabethTaylor in the frankly demented film version of the ecstatically demented #MurielSpark novel #TheDriversSeat. The costume design alone is bad fire.

Finished re-reading The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. My experience of reading #MurielSpark is still that The Driver's Seat and The Girls of Slender Means got under my skin, but Brodie and A Far Cry from Kensington didn't. I'm really not sure why.

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Who are 5-7 of your favourite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. #Bookstodon #Backlisted

Some of mine:
#PenelopeFitzgerald
#VirginiaWoolf
#JaneGardam
#DaphneDuMaurier
#DerekRaymond
#JosephineTey
#MurielSpark

@InBabel Both Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark -- both Queens, as far as I'm concerned -- are criminally underread here in the States. But there's still so much vivacity in their work to get jazzed up over! Even on a reread! #irismurdoch #murielspark

@r_mccormack Ian is a marvelous writer and a wonderfully kind man. I've interviewed him a couple of times. Plus, he's the only person I've met who is as obsessed with Muriel Spark's THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE as me! #books #ianrankin #murielspark