Contextualises Muriel Spark's writings in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards death'
This book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of S ren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, it is often forgotten that existentialism...