Memento Mori, English edition
(Sprache: Englisch)
Mit erbarmungsloser Komik schildert Muriel Spark die Abenteuer des unverbesserlichen alten Sünders Godfrey, seiner Gattin Charmian und seiner Schwester Lettie. Hohes Alter schützt die drei keineswegs vor Tor- und Bosheiten aller Art. Da gibt es Niedertracht...
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Mit erbarmungsloser Komik schildert Muriel Spark die Abenteuer des unverbesserlichen alten Sünders Godfrey, seiner Gattin Charmian und seiner Schwester Lettie. Hohes Alter schützt die drei keineswegs vor Tor- und Bosheiten aller Art. Da gibt es Niedertracht und Nachgetragenes, Erpresser und Erbschleicher, dazu den täglichen Kampf gegen Schwäche, Vergesslichkeit und Krankheiten. Aber die Alten wehren sich...
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Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more.
Autoren-Porträt von Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark, D.B.E, C. Litt, was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, a comedy, 'Doctors of Philosophy', first performed in London in 1962, and biographies. She is best known for her stories and many successful novels, including Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Loitering With Intent, The Comforters, A Far Cry from Kensington and The Public Image. For her long career of literary achievement, Muriel Spark won international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen British Literature Award, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Saltire Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. Muriel Spark was given an honorary doctorate of Letters from a number of universities, London, Edinburgh and Oxford among these. She died in 2006.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Muriel Spark
- 2010, 240 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Mitarbeit: Kennedy, A. L.
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 184408552X
- ISBN-13: 9781844085521
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.02.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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There is a Waugh-like brilliance to this novel, in the easy economical narrative, the continuous invention producing a series of surprises, the well-cut dialogue, the controlled tone. This last is the most remarkable of Miss Spark's achievements. Nothing is forced, least of all the humour V. S. Naipaul, NEW STATESMAN I am reading a trio of novels by Muriel Spark, a marvelously witty English writer, one of the few lady writers I like to read. Her best, I think, is Memento Mori, which is chillingly brilliant Tennessee Williams This funny and macabre book has delighted me as much as any novel that I have read since the war Graham Greene A brilliant and singularly gruesome achchievement Evelyn Waugh
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