Muriel Spark Signs An Excerpt From The Abbess Of Crewe

MURIEL SPARK

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DAME MURIEL SPARK (1918-2006). Spark was a British novelist.TDS. 1pg. N.d. N.p. A one-page typed excerpt from chapter one of, The Abbess of Crewe, signed Muriel Spark. Sparks 1974 novel about authority and scandal in a Roman Catholic convent is generally considered to be a political allegory. THE ABBESS OF CREWE Chapter One What is wrong, Sister Winifrede, says the Abbess, clear and loud to the receptive air, with the traditional keyhole method? Sister Winifrede says, in her whine of bewilderment, that voice of the very stupid, the mind where no dawn breaks, But, Lady Abbess, we discussed right from the start Silence! says the Abbess. We observe silence, now, and meditate. She looks at the tall poplars of the avenue where they walk, as if the trees are listening. The poplars cast their shadows in the autumn afternoons end, and the shadows lie in regular still file across the pathway like a congregation of prostrate nuns of the Old Order. The Abbess of Crewe, soaring in her slender height, a very Lombardy poplar herself, moving by Sister Winifredes side, turns her pale eyes to the gravel walk where their four black shoes tread, tread and tread, two at a time, till they come to the end of this corridor of meditation lined by the secret police of poplarsThe trees of course are bugged, says the Abbess. How else can we operate now that the scandal rages outside the walls? And now that you know this you do not know it so to speak. We have our security to consider, and Im only the arbiter of what it consists of, witness the Rule of St. Benedict. Im your conscience and your authority. You perform my will and finish. Muriel Spark. It is in fine condition. N° de réf. du vendeur 5255

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