The Driver's Seat
A British Literature, Fiction, Classics book. He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at...
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-111242Lise, driven to distraction by an office job, leaves everthing and flies south on holiday-in search of what? The passionate adventure, the obsessional experience? Sex?Well, yes, but Lise's creator is Muriel Spark, writing from the height of her achievement. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in the unnamed southern city. As Frank Kermode has written, for Mrs. Muriel Spark "the world itself is a land of fiction, a divine fiction which is...
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I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat // Oh" she says "the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a caf. The last one left". Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat // He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at her again, settling further into his seat with the slight sigh of one whose visitor has left and who is at last alone. Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat //
muriel spark really intrigues me, almost enough to make me break my rule about not learning anything about writers i admire. there's an air about her writing which is almost evil, yet at the same time they seem profoundly moral. it would not surprise me to learn that she was a nun, or maybe killed forty people with an axe. or both.... This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to play itself out. How it does is what you think of after you've finished the book, and in fact... (3.5) The human mind is a strange, complex, silly thing. We are the driver and passenger; we drive and ride, all the same. Our hands are on the wheel, foot to the accelerator, while our minds are looking at us; smiling, laughing, yelling, telling us to smash into that brick wall. If our mind isn't strong enough, we find other ways to...
