Harriet Waugh
God Sits on His Crane
Recently there has been much discussion in the papers about the demise of the plot in modern novels. In its place, it is suggested, we are now given style, and a sort of clever knowingness. If there is any truth to this contention, then Muriel Spark's Reality and Dreams is as fashionable as novels come. There is precious little plot, but the novel nevertheless grips, pleases and enthrals.
This is the situation: Tom is a film director. He is making a film about a girl he once glimpsed serving hamburgers in a
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
From @AdeTinniswood's superb review of James Fox's new cultural history of colour in the latest @Lit_Review https://literaryreview.co.uk/purple-prose-2
This month, subscribe to Literary Review and we'll send you a FREE hardback copy of Adam Nicolson's 'The Sea is Not Made of Water' (RRP £20).
Use the code AUGUST21 at checkout.
https://www.mymagazinesub.co.uk/literary-review/
'Of the seventy-two heteronyms he created there appear listed in Zenith’s dramatis personae forty-seven fictional authors, ranging from admirable poets ... to minor practitioners of the word.'
Alberto Manguel on the remarkable Fernando Pessoa.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/strange-case-of-dr-nabos-mr-reis