A Study Guide for Muriel Spark's "The First Year of My Life"
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The First Year of My Life
Muriel Spark
1975
Introduction
Muriel Spark's short story The First Year of My Life
is one of the her better-known works. Spark was a prolific author who wrote predominantly novels and short stories. First published in the New Yorker on June 2, 1975, The First Year of My Life
is narrated from the point of view of an omniscient infant in its first year of life. This device actually echoes that of Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy, which is often acknowledged as a groundbreaking narrative work that influenced the form of the modern novel. Where Sterne's novel begins with the eponymous narrator discussing his conception, Spark's story begins with the unnamed narrator's discussion of the day of her birth. In The First Year of My Life
this narrative device is employed as a means of exploring the horrors of war, specifically those experienced during World War I. The story plays on the unwitting wit and wisdom of children. Filled with irony and allusions to both the historic and literary events and figures of the day, Spark's story portrays a world so bleak even a baby (the narrator) is unable to smile.
The First Year of My Life
initially appeared in book form in Spark's 1982 collection Bang-Bang—You're Dead and Other Stories. It is more recently available in the 2001 edition of All the Stories of Muriel Spark.
Author Biography
Novelist, short-story author, playwright, poet, and literary critic Spark was born Muriel Sarah Camberg on February 1, 1918, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her father, Bernard Camberg, was Jewish, and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Maud (Uezzell) Camberg was a member of the Anglican Church. Spark took a brief correspondence course on commercial writing at Heriot-Watt College from 1935 to 1937, going on to teach English and then to work as a secretary. Also in 1937 (on September 3), she married Sidney Oswald Spark. The couple moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where their son, Robin,