A Far Cry from Kensington
A British Literature, European Literature, Fiction book. You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide...
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- Pages: 189 pages
- ISBN: 9780395476949 / 395476941
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You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can. Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington // ...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;... Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington // If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back...
This was a great book to start the new year with - an unexpectedly delicious souffle, with one of the most appealing first-person narrators I've come across in years. Mrs Hawkins, the main protagonist, is not just smart (this is Muriel Spark, after all), she's also hilariously funny and entertaining. Which makes this book a delight... There is something so alluring yet strange, very strange about Muriel Spark. The way she crafts her characters allows them to be complex and real, yet there are always unsettling tones to them that are hard to pinpoint. I would like to read more from this author. I really wanted to like this book. A Scottish author, London setting, a story steeped in and centered on books, plus some promise of intrigue and mystery. It fell completely flat for me. The narrator was completely unrelatable and utterly self-absorbed. I'm sure her "good advice" was meant to be funny in an ironic way, but her attitude...
