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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

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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

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    The House of The Famous Poet Book Review

    Încărcat de

    M Carmen
    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

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    Book review The house of the famous poet

    The house of the famous poet

    Im going to talk you about the house of the


    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
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    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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