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Foreshadowing is a consistent tool to drive the story forwards. Another of tomorrow's witnesses. She has to guide him through the whole last act, taking a lead, the driver's seat. Curtain and standing ovations! Reluctant comparison: This wonderfully strange, scary, disturbingly perfect tragedy- novella has some evident similarities to the annoying plot of London Fields , featuring a murderee determined to get murdered in the last act, using her manipulative charm and sense of chameleonic change of appearance to summon murderer candidates and to check their suitability for the task. The femme fatale Nicola plays her surroundings just like Lise, however with less charm and grace, and in an everlasting dull repetition over pages. After reading The Driver's Seat, I know the plot as such works beautifully - a determined murderee, looking for the murderer, is an exciting thought experiment, but I can't believe Amis got away with that lengthy rip-off without punishment. He stole the story and put a lot of testosterone into the mix. If Lise is a skilled professional murderee, Nicola is a cheap copy cat. Keith, however, and Marmaduke make up for it a bit, giving London Fields two comical characters where there is only one in The Driver's Seat, the deeply religious Jehova's Witness Mrs Fiedke, whose take on reality reads as follows: "No flying from Barcelona, I said. I'm a strict believer, but I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. I've been told the Scandinavian airlines are fairly reliable in that respect. The murderee is dead, long live the murderee! And Nicola: I don't blame you for copying Lise, who wouldn't feel tempted? Unfortunately you didn't choose your narrator as wisely as she did, so you got stuck in the middle. Update a week later: I honestly thought I was exaggerating the "Swedish decoration in pastel colours" angle of this book, written such a long time ago. I thought it was satire, until I opened my free weekend newspaper and read an article that made me think Muriel Spark was a master of foreshadowing things she didn't even know existed: Saturday, 17th September , a reportage about a Swedish author of crime fiction, of course and her sense of home styling in bright colours. And since the spines all vary slightly in colour, it makes a harmonious impression. This is true. Not satire. I apologise for thinking I was being funny when I wrote about that lady from Stockholm in the bookstore last week. I underestimated the situation significantly! View all 25 comments. My first Muriel Spark. Hmm, well, hmm… Not sure however how I feel with this short novel at all. Muriel Spark is very economical, she can pack a lot in her writing indeed, and as I know most of her works could be defined as short stories My first Muriel Spark. Muriel Spark is very economical, she can pack a lot in her writing indeed, and as I know most of her works could be defined as short stories or novellas, and if I had to term the genre I would opt for black comedy here. Because despite the whole tragic content and whodunnity background it is a comedy. At least for me but we established already I have somewhat odd sense of humour. The main protagonist Lise is definitely mentally disturbed. All people she has misfortune to meet on her way are more or less not right in the head either. A bit senile old lady met at the hotel and who accompanies Lise through day in shopping center, the guy from car workshop who offers to drive Lise and by the way trying to take advantage of the opportunity or the cranky dude fixated on healthy food and lifestyle who is allowed to at least one orgasm per day and, yes, you got this right, attempts use Lise for that. We can read these particular words he's not my type for several times because for her purpose Lise needs someone else, someone special. In fact she recognized him from the start like probably he guessed something about her behaviour too. Lise remained a mystery to me but the whole story despite its cruelty and brutality had quite surreal air. And, for starters, I think it's enough to make me read more of Spark. May 31, Violet wells rated it really liked it. A couple of years ago we were all told in Britain to take back control. But when people are licensed to express openly what they feel it's sometimes a shock to discover just how much hankering after ugliness there is in the human spirit. Social media too has borne this out. It's all very well for popular cinema to keep churning out these narratives about the beauty of the human spirit but really they only tell half the story. You might say it's that other half of the story which always interests A couple of years ago we were all told in Britain to take back control. You might say it's that other half of the story which always interests Muriel Spark. Her characters are often fermenting with disappointment, with the realisation they've been lied to like most of us they rarely admit to lying to themselves ; they are always seeking to take back control of their lives. The problem is, there's usually something corrupt at the heart of their aspirations. They are usually deluded. One morning Muriel Spark's heroine Lise, who has worked in an accountant's office since she was eighteen - no wonder she's reached breaking point! The opening scene has Lise choosing a new outfit for her impending holiday. To watch someone shopping for clothes provides such revealing insights into his or her character that I'm surprised it isn't used more by novelists as an introductory device for showing us who we are dealing with! However, the comic exuberance with which Spark writes this scene was indicative of the problem I had with this book as a whole. Its comic tone was pitched one note too high for me. It's self-consciously and relentlessly a very absurd novel. The running joke in this book is of a world turned inside out. It begins on the first page with our heroine wilfully choosing clothes that don't suit her and reaches its comic peak when a women, referring to hippies, bemoans the clamouring of men for equality with their insistence on long hair and jewellery. In all her books Spark is ingenious in her manner of managing narrative time. Same story here. Throughout the narrative she deftly moves the clock forward and backward. Informs us early on what awaits Lise, to begin with in the form of teasing "spoilers": we are told a woman who meets Lise at the airport will be questioned the following day by the police who are trying to establish who Lise is. Then a couple of pages later that Interpol are involved in the investigations. However, you realise the "spoiler" increases the tension rather than dissipating it. I'm not sure if the theme of this novel has any precedents; it certainly has a couple of acolytes - Elizabeth Bowen's Eva Trout and Martin Amis' London Fields both, in my opinion, slightly better novels. My least favourite of her books so far but I'd still recommend it. View all 21 comments. Sep 15, Gaurav rated it really liked it. Spark constructed her world with intelligence, relish and extraordinary precision of a surgeon. The book is a bleak comedy about the world itself built around tragedy of the central character- Lise, in which she throws around every set norm of the world. But underlying these expressions of frustration, irritation we come across to realize an existential leap, perhaps an act of faith, though of the darkest possible kind. We know beforehand what will the fate of Lise or the book per se but the narrative moves forward as to tell us when and how. It may be said to be the depiction of a malignant will which is built upon desire of self-harm. And that is how she uses her freedom. Could it be one of the ancillary characters of the book, who might have forced Lise to do what she eventually does? The world of Spark is hugely imaginative and perfectly resonates with T. This is my second read of Muriel Spark after The prime of Miss Brodie however, both novels are completely different to each other which underlines the extravagant talent of Spark. Highly recommended 4. So brief it could be a short story, so tightly wound it could be a mouse-trap, so visually powerful it could be a psychedelic trip, so frighteningly memorable it could be a Hitchcock film. But it's a Muriel Spark book in which many of her usual structural elements are present, elements such as formidability, isolation, predestination, mania and murder, though it's all ferociously pared back as in the mid-twentieth century architectural movement known as Brutalism. I'll leave it at that. View all 26 comments. Aug 02, Paul Bryant rated it did not like it Shelves: novels. Muriel Spark had enough brains for two normal people but this little novel was almost completely stupid. It was like a terrible joke whose heavily adumbrated punchline is a tiresome and obvious inversion of normal reality, like a banana slipping on the skin of a man. You carry on reading this book, and it is very readable, and doesn't take long, because you can't believe what you are suspecting will be the outcome will really be the outcome, and it is, that's all, no explanation, no nothing. Spa Muriel Spark had enough brains for two normal people but this little novel was almost completely stupid. Spark's fans mutter that this is a masterpiece. John Lanchester's introduction says : It is fair to say that The Driver's Seat is not one of her most famous books. That, I think, is because it doesn't tell us a single thing that we want to know. This kind of nonsense is called "dark" and "subversive" by some people but I call it "stupid" and "puerile". The year is or and the protagonist Lise is with an old lady who is confused by all the social changes of the 60s. They're in a large department store. The old dear says "Is she what they call a hippy? Mrs Fiedke looks with interest and whispers to Lise "They are hermaphrodites. It isn't their fault. View all 20 comments. Abandon hope all ye who enter here I tell you, you're on your own with this one. I cannae help. Don't come here looking for an interpretation, analysis, outline, summary or evaluation. I havenae a clue what she was up to either. Naw, and three times it is I've read it the noo, can you believe that? Well, it's very short. Naw, that's the thing, it doesnae help. In fact it just gets more confusing, cos you keep on finding wee dots that just wullnae join up, d'ya ken? I have this theory Abandon hope all ye who enter here I tell you, you're on your own with this one. I have this theory that Ms Spark was actually quite often really cruel to her characters, and here she goes that one step further and is cruel to her readers too. She'll be sat up there on her own wee cloud somewhere laughing like a drain at all the cahoots. You know, people trying to make sense of this nonsense? Naw, she doesnae gie us any help. It's all just weirdly bizarre. Aye, well, you'd need a right warped sense of humour, but yes, in a painful way it is, aye. Ye ken, that kind of laughter that just releases your anxiety, because you don't quite believe what you're seeing? That kind. Aye, of course I thought about it. And tae begin with I thought it was a feminist tract; woman goes in search of The One. It disnae do her much good to put it mildly when she finds The One. On the way to finding The One she is assailed by two lecherous males with come on lines that are hard to credit: "On this diet the Regional Master for Northern Europe recommends one orgasm a day. At least. Then I read this , well, most of it anyway. Based very much on Barthes, and claiming that any narrative that, like this one, explodes narrative and confounds readerly expectations is basically just doing that one job: showing us how narrative works. Or doesnae in this case. Barthes So here we have a Book Suicide. Buying it was fun though! Aye, this is one I actually picked up in a real life bookshop. Real bookshops are irresistible to me, even when I'm just visiting ma Mam and Dad with weight restricted carry-on luggage only. But I knew this was due up soon at an on-line book group I belong to, it's extremely thin and lightweight, so without further investigation I picked it up and carried it in my wee hot hands to the young man at the pay desk. Who gave me a distinctly strange look. So I read out the blurb on the back: "Lise But her search for adventure, sex and new experience takes on a far darker significance I assured him that I got my kicks in books rather than real life, but now that I have been driven to distraction by Ms Spark, I'm beginning to think that he was more concerned about the deleterious effect on my sanity that the reading process would bring than the fear that Ms Spark might inspire me to try for the garish temptress look. I'm still working on that one. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Lise, a suicidally unhappy woman in a dead-end job, travels to southern Italy to find someone to murder her. Lise, women like her, I have not infrequently heard referred to as "bitches on wheels. She goes ballistic early on when told that a dress she's trying on is made of stain-resistant fabric. She thinks the salesperson, by stating this simple fact, means to call Lise, a suicidally unhappy woman in a dead-end job, travels to southern Italy to find someone to murder her. She thinks the salesperson, by stating this simple fact, means to call her a sloppy eater. My favorite passages in the novella include the seduction of Lise undertaken by a macrobiotic diet fanatic, Bill, whose absurd monologues on Yin foods and Yang foods are hilarious. There is also Mrs. Friedke, an octogenarian, who tags along with Lise during shopping excursions. These jaunts devolve in time to a colloquy on who might or might not be "Lise's man," with Mrs. Friedke blithely oblivious to the real purpose this fellow is to serve. In that longer book, another woman, Nicola Six, methodically sets out to locate her murderer. Needless to say, both women are successful. There are passages in both books, too, which self-describe them as "whydoits" as opposed to whodunits. View all 8 comments. Apr 15, Hugh rated it really liked it Shelves: read , modern-lit , booker-shortlist. What a strange, disconcerting novella, a kind of inverted crime novel and black comedy in which we know what seems to be the most important part of the ending very early. The main protagonist is Lise, and we are introduced to her as she is arguing with a shop assistant trying to sell her a stain resistant dress. We can see from the start that Lise is at best eccentric and possibly mad, and we follow her demise almost in slow motion. As ever with Spark there are some very funny observations, but What a strange, disconcerting novella, a kind of inverted crime novel and black comedy in which we know what seems to be the most important part of the ending very early. As ever with Spark there are some very funny observations, but she seems determined to flout the conventions of the form throughout, and on her own terms she succeeds brilliantly. View all 4 comments. This book is loco, man. A death-haunted fever dream that hits you like absinthe and leaves you wide-eyed and paranoid. Loved it. View all 14 comments. Muriel Spark featured a lot on my GR feeds in the last year or so, and I always wanted to join the party and read more of her myself, after being impressed with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I plan to do so in , but hope whatever I do choose to read turns out better than this slim novel, which was written well enough, but wasn't as enjoyable as Jean Brodie. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. List of television programs by date. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Episode complete credited cast: Robert Reed Mike Brady Florence Henderson Carol Brady Ann B. Alice Nelson Maureen McCormick Marcia Brady Eve Plumb Jan Brady Susan Olsen Cindy Brady Barry Williams Greg Brady Christopher Knight Peter Brady Mike Lookinland Bobby Brady Herb Vigran Edit Storyline Jan's joined the school debating team, and wants to practice In perpetration of her first actual debate. Edit Did You Know? Trivia Herb Vigran, who played the driving instructor, also played the clerk at the trading stamp redemption center in the first season episode " And Fight". Goofs When Mrs. Brady and Alice are cooking the stove is clearly not on. It is a gas stove and there are no visible flames. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: English. It is indeed in the psychological thriller genre, dealing with themes of alienation, isolation and loss of spiritual values. It was filmed in starring Elizabeth Taylor and featuring Andy Warhol. In the U. S the film was renamed Identikit. Spark described it as one of her favourite novels. In , it was adapted for the stage for the first time by Laurie Sansom for a National Theatre of Scotland production which premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre , Edinburgh. Lise is a spinster , working in an accountancy firm somewhere in Northern Europe , probably Denmark the location is not explicitly specified. Spark described The Driver's Seat as a 'whydunnit' and she uses the term in the novel. Driver's Seat - Wikipedia

Actress - Elizabeth Taylor. Catholic Novels. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Elizabeth Taylor Lise Ian Bannen Bill Guido Mannari Carlo Mona Washbourne Helen Fiedke Luigi Squarzina Lead Detective Maxence Mailfort Pierre Andy Warhol English Lord Anita Bartolucci Saleswoman Gino Giuseppe Police Commissioner as Gino Giuseppe C. Traffic Policeman Bedy Moratti Dress Shop Owner Dino Mele Police Captain Alessandro Perrella Detective as Alessandro Perrella C. Quinto Parmeggiani Hotel Waiter Nadia Scarpitta Edit Storyline Lise Dame Elizabeth Taylor , a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman travels toward a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange, as if her own extinction will bring a meaningful existence to its wished-for end - a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison. Taglines: Was she really mad enough to plot her own murder? Genres: Drama. Edit Did You Know? Do you want to eat me? Bill : [ laughs ] I'd like to, I'd like to. Unfortunately, I'm on a macrobiotic diet and I can't eat meat. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: Italian English. Runtime: min. Sound Mix: Mono. Color: Color Technicolor. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Helen Fiedke. English Lord. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. The Brady Bunch — Rate This. Season 5 Episode All Episodes Marcia battles nerves and Greg's sexist remarks when she tries to get her driver's license. Eventually, the debate over which gender has the better driving abilities leads to a winner-take-all driving test in a vacant parking lot. Director: Jack Arnold. Writers: Sherwood Schwartz created by , George Tibbles. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. The Best Horror Movies on Netflix. List of television programs by date. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Episode complete credited cast: Robert Reed Mike Brady Florence Henderson Carol Brady Ann B. Alice Nelson Maureen McCormick Marcia Brady Eve Plumb The Driver's Seat () - IMDb

Written by Huggo. Marcia is going for her driver's test and bets Greg she will do better than he did. A pretty good Season 5 episode. Herb Vigran plays the driving examiner, he was in several "Adventures Of Superman" episodes. There is a funny scene when Marcia goofs up the first test. A subplot has Jan worried about being on the debating team. Mike gives some advice about imagining the audience in their underwear. Another funny moment is Marcia's second crack at the road test when she imagines the examiner in his underwear. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. The Brady Bunch — Rate This. Season 5 Episode All Episodes Marcia battles nerves and Greg's sexist remarks when she tries to get her driver's license. Eventually, the debate over which gender has the better driving abilities leads to a winner-take-all driving test in a vacant parking lot. Director: Jack Arnold. Writers: Sherwood Schwartz created by , George Tibbles. Available on Amazon. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. The Brady Bunch — Rate This. Season 5 Episode All Episodes Marcia battles nerves and Greg's sexist remarks when she tries to get her driver's license. Eventually, the debate over which gender has the better driving abilities leads to a winner-take-all driving test in a vacant parking lot. Director: Jack Arnold. Writers: Sherwood Schwartz created by , George Tibbles. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. List of television programs by date. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Episode complete credited cast: Robert Reed Mike Brady Florence Henderson Carol Brady Ann B. Alice Nelson Maureen McCormick Marcia Brady Eve Plumb Jan Brady Susan Olsen Cindy Brady Barry Williams Greg Brady Christopher Knight Peter Brady Mike Lookinland Bobby Brady Herb Vigran Edit Storyline Jan's joined the school debating team, and wants to practice In perpetration of her first actual debate.

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Spa Muriel Spark had enough brains for two normal people but this little novel was almost completely stupid. Spark's fans mutter that this is a masterpiece. John Lanchester's introduction says : It is fair to say that The Driver's Seat is not one of her most famous books. That, I think, is because it doesn't tell us a single thing that we want to know. This kind of nonsense is called "dark" and "subversive" by some people but I call it "stupid" and "puerile". The year is or and the protagonist Lise is with an old lady who is confused by all the social changes of the 60s. They're in a large department store. The old dear says "Is she what they call a hippy? Mrs Fiedke looks with interest and whispers to Lise "They are hermaphrodites. It isn't their fault. View all 20 comments. Abandon hope all ye who enter here I tell you, you're on your own with this one. I cannae help. Don't come here looking for an interpretation, analysis, outline, summary or evaluation. I havenae a clue what she was up to either. Naw, and three times it is I've read it the noo, can you believe that? Well, it's very short. Naw, that's the thing, it doesnae help. In fact it just gets more confusing, cos you keep on finding wee dots that just wullnae join up, d'ya ken? I have this theory Abandon hope all ye who enter here I tell you, you're on your own with this one. I have this theory that Ms Spark was actually quite often really cruel to her characters, and here she goes that one step further and is cruel to her readers too. She'll be sat up there on her own wee cloud somewhere laughing like a drain at all the cahoots. You know, people trying to make sense of this nonsense? Naw, she doesnae gie us any help. It's all just weirdly bizarre. Aye, well, you'd need a right warped sense of humour, but yes, in a painful way it is, aye. Ye ken, that kind of laughter that just releases your anxiety, because you don't quite believe what you're seeing? That kind. Aye, of course I thought about it. And tae begin with I thought it was a feminist tract; woman goes in search of The One. It disnae do her much good to put it mildly when she finds The One. On the way to finding The One she is assailed by two lecherous males with come on lines that are hard to credit: "On this diet the Regional Master for Northern Europe recommends one orgasm a day. At least. Then I read this , well, most of it anyway. Based very much on Barthes, and claiming that any narrative that, like this one, explodes narrative and confounds readerly expectations is basically just doing that one job: showing us how narrative works. Or doesnae in this case. Barthes So here we have a Book Suicide. Buying it was fun though! Aye, this is one I actually picked up in a real life bookshop. Real bookshops are irresistible to me, even when I'm just visiting ma Mam and Dad with weight restricted carry-on luggage only. But I knew this was due up soon at an on-line book group I belong to, it's extremely thin and lightweight, so without further investigation I picked it up and carried it in my wee hot hands to the young man at the pay desk. Who gave me a distinctly strange look. So I read out the blurb on the back: "Lise But her search for adventure, sex and new experience takes on a far darker significance I assured him that I got my kicks in books rather than real life, but now that I have been driven to distraction by Ms Spark, I'm beginning to think that he was more concerned about the deleterious effect on my sanity that the reading process would bring than the fear that Ms Spark might inspire me to try for the garish temptress look. I'm still working on that one. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Lise, a suicidally unhappy woman in a dead-end job, travels to southern Italy to find someone to murder her. Lise, women like her, I have not infrequently heard referred to as "bitches on wheels. She goes ballistic early on when told that a dress she's trying on is made of stain-resistant fabric. She thinks the salesperson, by stating this simple fact, means to call Lise, a suicidally unhappy woman in a dead-end job, travels to southern Italy to find someone to murder her. She thinks the salesperson, by stating this simple fact, means to call her a sloppy eater. My favorite passages in the novella include the seduction of Lise undertaken by a macrobiotic diet fanatic, Bill, whose absurd monologues on Yin foods and Yang foods are hilarious. There is also Mrs. Friedke, an octogenarian, who tags along with Lise during shopping excursions. These jaunts devolve in time to a colloquy on who might or might not be "Lise's man," with Mrs. Friedke blithely oblivious to the real purpose this fellow is to serve. In that longer book, another woman, Nicola Six, methodically sets out to locate her murderer. Needless to say, both women are successful. There are passages in both books, too, which self-describe them as "whydoits" as opposed to whodunits. View all 8 comments. Apr 15, Hugh rated it really liked it Shelves: read , modern-lit , booker-shortlist. What a strange, disconcerting novella, a kind of inverted crime novel and black comedy in which we know what seems to be the most important part of the ending very early. The main protagonist is Lise, and we are introduced to her as she is arguing with a shop assistant trying to sell her a stain resistant dress. We can see from the start that Lise is at best eccentric and possibly mad, and we follow her demise almost in slow motion. As ever with Spark there are some very funny observations, but What a strange, disconcerting novella, a kind of inverted crime novel and black comedy in which we know what seems to be the most important part of the ending very early. As ever with Spark there are some very funny observations, but she seems determined to flout the conventions of the form throughout, and on her own terms she succeeds brilliantly. View all 4 comments. This book is loco, man. A death-haunted fever dream that hits you like absinthe and leaves you wide-eyed and paranoid. Loved it. View all 14 comments. Muriel Spark featured a lot on my GR feeds in the last year or so, and I always wanted to join the party and read more of her myself, after being impressed with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I plan to do so in , but hope whatever I do choose to read turns out better than this slim novel, which was written well enough, but wasn't as enjoyable as Jean Brodie. Lise, as a character, is hard to pin down - we find out she is thin and roughly five-foot-six in height, and in her mid 30s. She is neither good looking nor bad, travels light, while also speaking four languages. When she meets men she is viewing them as her potential killer, and you begin to realise that she is definitely not possessing the right amount of marbles upstairs. When she rejects them as not really her type, it is not because of their unsuitability as intimates but because she has no desire to be murdered by them. But what keep things interesting is that it's unclear how events will actually unfold. It was a strange little novel for me, that read in part like the scenario of a stark film noir, but one that switches back and forth through other cinematic genres like romance and comedy. So tonally, I'm not too sure. The unsettling ending did hit me for six, even though I knew it was coming, it really was shattering. Overall though, mixed feelings on this one. View all 5 comments. My ultimate takeaway is this is a story of knowing your fate and embracing it, even facilitating it. Clues are dropped along the way that Lise knows why s 3. Lise alternates between being as disagreeable as possible and being somewhat agreeable, between telling lies and being bluntly honest. Is she happy about it or does she want to get it over with? Who knows? Jan 01, Zanna rated it really liked it Shelves: bechdel-pass. This is the sort of book that crawls into your heart. I read the first half of it on the train up to see my family for new year and I arrived inexplicably on edge; it took me a few minutes to realise I had to blame Spark. When I'd finished I put the book down like something too hot, and kept on reflecting on it for a while as I drifted off to sleep. One thing I reinterpreted retrospectively was the reason for Spark's flat-toned foreshadowing. She was really playing with the concept of authorship This is the sort of book that crawls into your heart. She was really playing with the concept of authorship at a moment when the possibility of autonomy was becoming increasingly available to women. I don't think I agree with John Lanchester's reading at all. I don't think the story expresses a horror of modernity itself, certainly not of emancipation, sexual or otherwise. My interpretation is that the story explores a particular flavour that modernity can give to alienation, and also perhaps satirises the backlash against feminism during the period. Lanchester seems to lack all sensitivity to these potentially radical possibilities. What most puzzled me was deciding what depth, what quality of sympathy I need to have with Lise. The tension I feel is between Spark's play on patriarchal literature's habit of mounting to a heroic climax in which the loser is vanquished, and Lise's rebellious co-writing of her own text for the incidental, the hindrances, are Spark's, aren't they? That three men attempt to rape Lise seems to me to express frustration at just how difficult it has been for women to wrest control of their lives, their subjectivities, their texts. View all 6 comments. Sep 24, Kai rated it liked it Shelves: owned , read-for-uni , classics. This is a strange little book, but one I won't soon forget. To say there is foreshadowing is an understatement; Spark tells you right away what happens to Lise, the star of the show. But that doesn't take away from the story at all. You can be sure of one thing if you pick this book up, Muriel Spark's writing will not disappoint. View 1 comment. Aug 13, Geevee rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction. But why and what has caused her to react in this way to a young salesgirl? From the outset in this novella Muriel Spark creates characters that are less than likeable but also complicated, hurt and abused. Lise's journey and denouement is a statement possibly of women, the sixties and her own place in a changing world as much as her direct situation and circumstance The Driver's Seat is not one of Spark's best liked book or received books, "I will not be insulted! Lise's journey and denouement is a statement possibly of women, the sixties and her own place in a changing world as much as her direct situation and circumstance The Driver's Seat is not one of Spark's best liked book or received books, but for me it is a short piece of superb writing with descriptions and atmosphere a-plenty. I was challenged to laugh at Lise yet Ms Spark's writing found me wanting her to be treated better or just be more aware Original published by Macmillan View all 9 comments. Aug 16, Sidharth Vardhan rated it really liked it Shelves: english-world , woman-authors , booker , list A kind of novella that spends more time in your mind than on the page. Spark does it brilliantly by working under- the-hood. It is no spoiler that it is all about Lise executing her plan to kill herself. But the why never gets answered clearly. By the en A kind of novella that spends more time in your mind than on the page. By the end, we get clear clues that she must have suffered some psychological problems. And mental illness can describe her problems and one can easily dismiss it at that, but from Shakespeare to Plath to Gogol to Grass to Han Kang, writers have long held habit of putting methods in madness. I will forward two theories, not mutually exclusive. Suicides, especially those who have been planning to kill themselves for a long time, tend to be dramatic think '13 reasons why' , knowing you are going to die soon, must mean that you want to leave some impact on the world. Is that why Lise works hard to leave a trail behind? Refuse to take unstainable dress so that her blood would show on her dress exciting 'pity and fear' the last words of a novella? The second theory is that her eccentric actions arise out of a wish to avenge sexism she must have faced all her life. In the first chapter, there is the first reference to the 'glass ceiling' I have found in literature when Lise is described as having 'five girls under her and two men. Over her are two women and five men. The title itself points to a male-ruled world. She is a spinster, and her suddenly turning extremely girly - all point to a suppressed sexual instincts at one point, she says it is the 'after the sex part' which bothers her. This can be compared to the male character who tells her that a daily orgasm or two is necessary for digesting food. Lise seems to have decided to be in the driver's seat for a change. Throughout the novel, she seems to provoke men to believe to believe that they can expect favors from her only to deny them afterward. Again, she makes use of a man to kill herself too. Aug 12, Blair rated it really liked it Shelves: s-release , classics , read-on-kindle. The Driver's Seat is a weird, evasive story in which we are introduced to a chameleon-like protagonist named Lise. In an opening that is instantly unnerving, the first scene sees her raging at a shop assistant for daring to suggest she should buy a stain-proof dress - rather than seeing this as a positive, she loudly berates the girl for implying she would spill food on her clothes. Despite having led an ordered, somewhat mundane life - she's worked in the same office for sixteen years - Lise se The Driver's Seat is a weird, evasive story in which we are introduced to a chameleon-like protagonist named Lise. Despite having led an ordered, somewhat mundane life - she's worked in the same office for sixteen years - Lise seems to enjoy making a scene and either observing or imagining the aftermath, a pattern of behaviour that repeats itself throughout the story. The book is about a chain of events that unfolds when she takes a holiday in an unspecified location, constantly changing her voice, attitude and demeanour as she encounters a number of odd characters who she repeatedly abandons, moving on to the next strange situation, looking - she keeps telling people - for a man who is her 'type', whatever that may mean. But Spark tells the reader early on that Lise is ultimately murdered, and the mystery of who and how particularly as Lise always seems to be into control drives the plot towards a shocking conclusion. I had actually guessed Lise's aim early in the book, but I was still compelled to read on to see if I could come to understand the character and her motivations. However, Lise remains a mystery - she is unreadable and the narrative is unapologetic about that. It's detached, vaguely surreal, and the indistinct nature of the settings adds to its air of unreality. A quick, disconcerting read with a dark heart; I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer strangeness of this novel. This book was not at all what I expected, but in the good way that shows you a surprising side of a writer. It's the story of the last few days in the life of Lise, an unhappy career woman who takes a trip to Italy. She buys a garish dress and loudly tells everyone she meets that she has a date with her boyfriend. We learn early This book was not at all what I expected, but in the good way that shows you a surprising side of a writer. We learn early on that Lise will soon be found dead, but the mystery is about who and how and why. Is Lise crazy or just suicidal? I think I'll remember this unsettling novella for a long time to come. Aug 19, Nicola rated it it was amazing. That's how you write a fucking novella. Oct 17, Alex rated it it was amazing Shelves: rth-lifetime , , novel-a-biography , noir , top Lise doesn't make sense. She acts like a lunatic - not even a real lunatic, a lunatic's conception of a lunatic. All the way through the book, I thought: "Really? This is the plot? This seems very far-fetched. She gets herself into very dangerous situations with men - some would even say she's leading them on and then stealing their cars. She keeps mumbling about her imaginary boyfriend, whom she's looking for, who doesn't exist yet. Why did she plant her passport carefully in a cab? No one does that. If this is what's happening, it's not a very good book. But I gave this five stars, because view spoiler [it doesn't happen. When Lise describes the book she's carrying as a "whydunnit", Spark is talking about this book, and I think this book is really the answer to "Why did you do it? We never meet Lise. The woman in this book exists only in the mind of the guy who killed her. Everything she does - leading men on, ending up with things this guy's mother bought, planting her passport in a cab, looking for "her type," whom she will mystically know when she sees - they suddenly make sense if they've been invented by a murderous nutcase. When she finally finds him and orders him to murder her - "Tie my feet and kill, that's all. They will come and sweep it up in the morning. This doesn't seem like a crazy theory to me. The last paragraph says, "The typewriter ticks out his unnerving statement," which seems to me like Spark is explaining the book to us. But I don't see this explanation kicking around elsewhere, so I don't know. This is why I think he did it. There's this whole genre of men view spoiler [who murder women they've invented: who invent women who demand to be killed. Mar 02, BrokenTune rated it really liked it Shelves: reviewed. What kind of person would go ballistic on finding out that the dress she was looking to buy is made of a fabric that does not stain? Nope, I don't know anyone to do something like this either but guessing from the way the story of The Driver's Seat develops, Lise is not like most people - Lise is having a breakdown. I say I'm guessing this from the way the story unfolds. This is because the story is not told from Lise's perspective. The narration does not delve into an exploration of Lise's mind. All we get to know is what Lise does and that she will die, but not what she thinks. Therefore, we are faced with the task of deducing her mindset, her character, from her actions. Guessing just as much why Lise objects to a stain- proof dress, why she walks out of her job after 16 years, why she goes on a trip, and why she makes up a net of lies and personas in the course of her adventure. Or should this be mis-adventure? This is a short but utterly compelling read. It's darkness reminded me of Shirley Jackson's stories, but Sparks succeeds where Jackson failed - The Driver's Seat made me gasp, it made me sit on the edge of my seat, ignoring the ringing of my phone. Dec 20, Ellie rated it it was amazing Shelves: disturbing , literary , individual-challenge , british , fiction. I apparently read this book already: it has a review that sounds like I wrote it but I have no memory of reading it. I enjoyed it both times though. Spark is a writer with a dark almost vicious sense of humor. She makes me laugh uncomfortably, feeling bad about myself for laughing while simultaneously feeling creeped out. This book is no exception; in fact, it may be the pinnacle of her kind of writing. Lise is a somewhat and maybe more crazy office worker who is off for a holiday in some und I apparently read this book already: it has a review that sounds like I wrote it but I have no memory of reading it. Lise is a somewhat and maybe more crazy office worker who is off for a holiday in some undisclosed European country. The tone is set by her shopping expedition for traveling clothes in which Spark shows us her as on the edge of mentally stable in a semi-subtle way. Without coming out and directly telling us this woman is tottering on a precipice, Spark lets us know from the start that Lise is, to put it mildly, unwell. The book is disturbing but pulled me in from the start and kept me held in its darkness throughout. It's both nightmarish and yet maybe I'm just warped funny. Not laugh at loud funny but feel a little sick in your stomach for laughing funny. I've read a lot of Spark's books and this is probably my favorite even if I didn't remember reading it! It made me want to read more of her books and maybe revisit some. View all 12 comments. In this novel novella, really, or very long short story published in , Spark turns traditional gender relations on their head. As the buoyant, frenetic Lise, dressed in clashing colors, goes on holiday in Genoa on the hunt for "her type," she meets the elderly Mrs. The two team up for a shopping spree slippers for Mrs F's nephew; a food mixer, among other things, for Lise : "They are demanding equal rights with us," says Mrs. Perf In this novel novella, really, or very long short story published in , Spark turns traditional gender relations on their head. Perfume, jewelry, hair down to their shoulders, and I'm not talking about the ones who were born like that They would take their hat off. But they want their equality. If God intended them to be equal to us he wouldn't have made them different from us to the naked eye. They don't want to be dressed all alike any more. Which is only a move against us. You couldn't run an army like that, let alone the male sex. With all due respect to Mr. Fiedke, may he rest in peace, the male sex is getting out of hand. Of course, Mr. Fiedke knew his place as a man, give him his due Fur coats and flowered poplin shirts on their backs If we don't look lively They won't be content with equal rights only. Next thing, they'll want the upper hand. Mark my words. Diamond earrings, I've read it in the paper. But it's also very unsettling. The frenetic, inscrutable Lise's hunting down of her "type" proves very successful indeed, to unexpected and terrifying consequences. Spark does it again: wholly original, pithy, and dark. Who can tell? On her trip Lise wears garish clothes and often strikes up loud and bizarre conversations with other people. 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