From the NS archive: The Prime of Miss Muriel Spark
27 September 1963: Such novels assume the reader’s sympathetic participation in muddle.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
27 September 1963: Such novels assume the reader’s sympathetic participation in muddle.
By Frank KermodeCompared with Swift’s ferocious wit, Private Eye is primitive stuff.
By Frank Kermode