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Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more.… (meer)
Spark is bij mijn weten de eerste die radicaal inzoemt op de "derde leeftijd", de hoofdrolspelers zijn allemaal plus-zeventigers. We krijgen een erg humoristisch en sarcastisch beeld van oudjes die vooral bezig zijn met het toedekken van hun verleden, met het aan zich binden van (jongere) mensen via hun testament (dat ze dus voortdurend wijzigen) en met het contstant beloeren van hun lotgenoten. Het beeld wordt op de duur wel erg wrang en meelijwekkend, zeker naarmate de onrust over de voortdurende telefoontjes van een anonieme beller "Remember you must die" toeneemt. Spark beschrijft het allemaal genadeloos, zonder gemoraliseer. ( )
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What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail?
W B Yeats, The Tower.
O what Venerable and Reverend Creatures did the Aged seem! Immortal Cherubims!
Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation.
Q. What are the four last things to be ever remembered? A. The four last things to be ever remembered are Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven.
The Penny Catechism.
Opdracht
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For TERESA WALSHE with love
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Dame Lettie Colston refilled her fountain-pen and continued her letter: One of these days I hope you will write as brilliantly on a happier theme.
The world according to Muriel Spark is a startling place, constructed with intelligence, relish and extraordinary precision. (Introduction)
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Remember you must die.
(Spoiler Alert) Lisa Brooke died in her seventy-third year after her second stroke. She had taken nine months to die, and in fact it was only a year before her death that, feeling rather ill, she had decided to reform her life, and reminding herself how attractive she still was, offered up the new idea, her celibacy, to the Lord to whom no gift whatsoever is unacceptable.
Laatste woorden
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Jean Taylor lingered for a time, employing her pain to magnify the Lord, and meditating sometimes confidingly upon Death, the first of the four last things to be ever remembered.
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more.
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