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A review by bunburyist
Snobs by Julian Fellowes
3.0
I like Fellowes' writing enough in this novel, but I think I enjoy his talents more as a screen writer. In the end Snobs felt very much like a modern version of Anna Karenina (or Madame Bovary) set in England, contrasting the city and country, complete with the bored married woman having an affair with a man whom she lives with for a bit and then is disappointed when the same circles of society who initially accepted her do not acknowledge her new relationship. In the end she even gives birth to her lover's blond headed child.
It would be interesting to pursue the similarities further, but the endings are quite different. Where Tolstoy's femme fetale sees death as her only escape, Edith simply returns to her old life determined not to be bored this time. So, yeah, largely a modern Anna Karenina, but without all the nasty morphine and train bits.
It would be interesting to pursue the similarities further, but the endings are quite different. Where Tolstoy's femme fetale sees death as her only escape, Edith simply returns to her old life determined not to be bored this time. So, yeah, largely a modern Anna Karenina, but without all the nasty morphine and train bits.