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The document provides a book review and summary of the short story "The House of the Famous Poet" by Muriel Spark. It describes how the protagonist meets a girl named Elise and a scruffy soldier on a train. He stays at the house where Elise works, not knowing it is the home of a famous modern poet. The story takes a surreal turn when the soldier returns and sells the protagonist an "abstract funeral". At the end, it is revealed the soldier represents death, as Elise and the poet are killed when a bomb hits the house on the same day the protagonist was offered the "funeral". The review concludes the short story is difficult to describe but captivates readers and leaves them puzzled
The document provides a book review and summary of the short story "The House of the Famous Poet" by Muriel Spark. It describes how the protagonist meets a girl named Elise and a scruffy soldier on a train. He stays at the house where Elise works, not knowing it is the home of a famous modern poet. The story takes a surreal turn when the soldier returns and sells the protagonist an "abstract funeral". At the end, it is revealed the soldier represents death, as Elise and the poet are killed when a bomb hits the house on the same day the protagonist was offered the "funeral". The review concludes the short story is difficult to describe but captivates readers and leaves them puzzled
The document provides a book review and summary of the short story "The House of the Famous Poet" by Muriel Spark. It describes how the protagonist meets a girl named Elise and a scruffy soldier on a train. He stays at the house where Elise works, not knowing it is the home of a famous modern poet. The story takes a surreal turn when the soldier returns and sells the protagonist an "abstract funeral". At the end, it is revealed the soldier represents death, as Elise and the poet are killed when a bomb hits the house on the same day the protagonist was offered the "funeral". The review concludes the short story is difficult to describe but captivates readers and leaves them puzzled
famous poet by Muriel Spark. Muriel SparK was born in 1918 in Edinburg Scotland. Her novels deal satirically contemporary lives, writing with irony and showing great spycological capacity. She served as editor of the Poetry Review from 1947 to 1949 and there she published poetry, short stories and critical biographies of figures, and between these short stories we can find the house of the famous poet. The story starts on a train from Edinburg to London in 1944; there, the protagonist met a girl named Elise and a soldier. He didn't like the scruffylooking soldier, no matter how friendly he seemed. The narrator accepted an offer to stay in the house where Elise worked since her employers were away some days. At first the house was distasted until he found out it was the house of a famous modern poet which he knew many of his poems by heart, then the house took a fresh appearance. During the narrative there is a constant fear of sirens pumps. Suddenly, the story began to change and to become a surreal story. The house was transformed. The soldier returned. Firstly the conversation with him got colourful but suddenly it got sad. The soldier sold the protagonist an abstract funeral to raise his train fare. First the protagonist doubted to accept it but the soldier said that he had 1
Book review The house of the famous poet
sold one to Elise and another to the poet and at the
end, the protagonist accepted the abstract funeral too, but when he got the train he saw the soldier again during a while, and after the soldier got off again, but this time it wasnt a real soldier it was the notion of the same soldier. Then the protagonist decided to throw the abstract funeral out the window, and some days later he learned Elise and the famous poet had been kill that day when a bomb hit the poets house. Now the protagonist reminds himself that one day Elise accepted an abstract funeral and she didnt make any complaint. To conclude, I had to say that the house of the famous poet is almost impossible to describe. Its got layers, its got emotional depth, it will capture your imagination, and it will leave you with lots of questions. A story that captivates and leaves suddenly puzzled, but instantly you start to find that the strange soldier really is the angel of death and if the protagonist had accepted that day the abstract funeral, he could have died that night with Elisa and the famous poet. I would recommend this short story to all those who like the mystery.
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