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Memento Mori is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark published by Macmillan in 1959. The title (Latin for "remember you must die"), references a common trope. This is represented in the novel by a series of insidious phone calls made to the elderly Dame Lettie Colston and her acquaintances.
Memento Mori. Muriel Spark. 3.62. 6,456 ratings920 reviews. Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive these anonymous calls, and she does not wish to be reminded. Nor do her friends and family - though they are constantly looking out for signs of decline in others, and change their wills on a weekly basis.
Jan 31, 2022 · Muriel Spark's 'Memento Mori', first published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and inclusive British writers of recent times. It tells the acidly funny story of a group of elderly people who start to receive threatening phone calls telling them 'remember, you must die'. Access-restricted-item.
Jun 1, 2000 · Muriel Spark’s third novel, Memento Mori, published in 1959 is a blackly comedic, sometimes savage, sometimes tender journey towards death, following a group of aged upper middle class intellectuals, their servants and companions, towards their final breaths.
- Muriel Spark
May 27, 2014 · Paperback – May 27, 2014. by Muriel Spark (Author) 4.0 223 ratings. Part of: New Directions Classic (14 books) See all formats and editions. Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age.
- Muriel Spark
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny...
Memento Mori, comic and macabre novel by Muriel Spark, published in 1959. This psychological fantasy was Spark’s most widely praised novel. In characteristically spare, exacting prose, the author looked unflinchingly at old age.
