Memento Mori (New Directions Classic, #0) (Plataforma Narrativa) (Film/Tv tie-in)

by Muriel Spark

In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more.

• ISBN10: 0811214389
• ISBN13: 9780811214384
• Publish Date: 6 September 2005 (first published 29 March 1973)
• Publish Status: Inactive
• Out of Print: 11 September 2014
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 228
• Language: English

Reviews

[brokentune]

Memento Mori - "Remember you must die" is the message that an anonymous caller issues to several elderly people, who all react differently to receiving the nuisance calls.

What follows is a confused look into the lives of the recipients of these calls and into the way that society neglects the elderly.

I don't know what it was about this book, but I rather disliked it. I gather from the reviews of others that there is humorous, yet, macabre writing in this, but I didn't really find much humour in it and found it more sinister and cynical than anything.

Not for me.