
Joseph O’Neill Reads Muriel Spark
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Driver's Seat
Mural's spark is quite amazingly strong, and the men by invariably these risable, contemptible characters. They just sit around on the table shrinking and getting drunk. And they're always sort of leaching off the women and kind of being a pest. This question of power is so interesting. It concerns a woman who's slightly deranged and who goes to South somewhere in Italy,. possibly in order to find a man who will kill her, but not rape her.
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