Abstract
Discusses Muriel Spark's “international comedy of manners” Territorial Rights (1979), both as a heavily-plotted and "starkly-realistic" thriller about a wouldbe criminal in Venice who challenges an American millionaire, till both are defeated by the machinations of the secretive agency GESS, and in terms of Park's satirical view on western moral decadence and metafictional concerns, arguing that the narrator’s apparently limited omniscience brings together a compelling polyphony of characters, rendering events through their individual, unreliable, and often contradictory points of view.
Recommended Citation
Monterrey, Tomás
(2019)
"Scenic and Textual Venice in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 45:
Iss.
1, 56–72.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/5