by Muriel Spark · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140123098
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In 'Symposium', Muriel Spark delivers a delightfully alarming novel, full of high society and low cunning. One October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying "the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)" and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment. The novel mixes a Monet, a mad uncle, some unconventional nuns, and a burglary ring run by a rent-a-butler. At the heart of the plot is a perfectly evil young woman who has married rich Hilda's son by hook or by crook. Spiritual conversation is intertwined with superb Bordeaux, as the tension between formality and subversion is elegantly maintained.
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
