Rachel Cusk on Muriel Spark's "The House of the Famous Poet"

I never felt the influence of Muriel Spark, despite that a substantial female figure in British literature.

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April 2, 1966

It's a pity, because there was much to learn from her macabre, entirely unsentimental art and its account of the strange violence of living. It was only quite recently, when I came across a new volume of her collected letters (meticulously edited by Dan Gunn), that I first felt confronted by her persona. The letters invited an investigation into both the life and the work.