Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death

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 Søren 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 was originally a Christian philosophy, shaped by