It is no surprise that one of Muriel Spark's most lively and
entertaining works would be her own memoir, Curriculum Vitae. Born
to a Scottish Jewish father and an English Presbyterian mother,
Spark describes her childhood in 1930s Edinburgh in brief, dazzling
anecdotes. In one she recalls a cherished schoolteacher, Christina
Kay, who would later be used as the prototype for Miss Jean Brodie.
Spark boldly details her disastrous first marriage to Sydney Oswald
Spark (S.O.S.) - himself thirty-two, she just nineteen - whom she
followed to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and left behind to return to
England. In the midst of WWII, Spark took a bizarre position
working in the disinformation campaign of the British Secret
Service, eliciting information from German POWs to combat Nazi
propaganda. She later moved to the Poetry Society of London, where
she mingled with literati and other intellectuals, befriended by
some (such as Graham Greene, an early supporter of her work) and
sparring with others. We experience Spark's joy with the
publication of her first novel, The Comforters, her trials with
other writers' envy, and her emergence as the most brilliant femme
fatale of 20th-century English literature.
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