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‘That awful madness within the love of God, and the correspondingly awful madness that potentially arises from the belief a writer needs to have in the truth of their own creations, was the beating heart of Muriel Spark’s fiction.’ Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Colin Burrow · World-Beating Buster-Upper: Muriel Spark’s Wickedness The characteristic flavour of Spark’s writing was that of a Catholic ironist, for whom the terrible and the laughable... https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n18/colin-burrow/world-beating-buster-upper