Exploring Embedded Narratives in Muriel Spark...

Exploring Embedded Narratives in Muriel Spark’s The Finishing School

Author Name : Ms Babita

The novel as a form became the centre of critical analysis with the beginning of modernist movement and in the postmodern era this critical study with the form of novel led to several radical changes. Muriel Spark from the beginning of her novel writing career explored new narrative strategies. She is an internationally celebrated novelist whose each novel is a literary event. Spark underlines the existential problems in God-created world without any orthodox perspective and rejects the traditional style of narration. Spark’s experiments with the form and technique of the novel provide wider perspective to understand the postmodern concerns.