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Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2018

‘Vital, witty, formidably blithe’: Ali Smith on Muriel Spark at 100 / Ali Smith

Recently I found myself rereading Muriel Spark's novel The Mandelbaum Gate for the first time in 30 years. I’ve been rereading a lot of Spark over this last year and a half, because the times we’re in right now, and the way the information speedfests are forming our everyday history and asking such challenging questions about truth and lies and fiction, mean that I’ve found I’ve had the need of Spark like never before – her intelligence, her longsightedness, her wit, her liberating merriment, her formidable blitheness. ... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/29/ali-smith-on-muriel-spark-at-100

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