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Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death (Hardcover)
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Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death (Hardcover)
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Contextualises Muriel Spark's writings in the tradition of
Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards
death' This book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in
particular, the work of Soren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's
religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the
prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic
existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, it is often forgotten that
existentialism was originally a Christian philosophy, shaped by
followers of Kierkegaard such as Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel.
Craig traces in Spark's writings both the influence of Kierkegaard
and of Spark's resistance to Sartre's co-option of existentialism
to an atheistic agenda. Kierkegaard's analysis of the nature of the
'aesthetic' as a false mode of existence that has to be transcended
by the ethical and then by the religious provides a fundamental
structure for Spark's satirical analyses of the failings of the
modern world. Key Features Provides detailed analyses of a
substantial proportion of Spark's novels Explains the philosophies
of Kierkegaard and Sartre designed for readers without specialist
philosophical knowledge Re-reads major Spark works, such as The
Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Hothouse by
the East River, Symposium, The Only Problem Analyses the ways in
which Spark situates her plots within the major historical
conflicts and social transformations of the twentieth century
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