Seduction, Simulacra and the Feminine: spectacles and images in Muriel Spark's The Public Image

Muriel Spark's novel The Public Image introduces the reader into the world of the spectacle, where the 'real' has been replaced by its image. The woma n, who has always been identified with the power of the spectacle, is impri soned within the patriarchal gaze of the camera, until she is completely lo st in the seduction of images. The novel itself is, in its turn, consumed i n a continuous reproduction of texts, images, spectacles following the game of the society of the spectacle, in an effort to bring to the fore the ope rational model of this society.