Fiction and E.M. Forster
Frank Kermode: At the Cost of Life, 10 May 2007
“... interested in the science, the narratology, than in the story. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short novel nearly everybody knows. Asked to tell its story you would have to give up any idea of following the order of events presented by the text. The play and the film give one an idea of the flattening out required to achieve the ... ”
