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A review by gerd_d
Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
3.0
Liked it a lot better than Kafka's "Metamorphosis"
Garnett's for one a lot more humourous, although it's that typical dark british humour at work all over, and for other his observations about how we love and about relationships work feel a lot easier to relate to than Kafka's darkly nihilistic satire on family (the latter however may depend on your family).
I felt there to be something especially troubling, yet still pertinent to our modern thinking, to the way the husband's love and worry for his transformed wife drove him to try to shield her from danger by cutting her off from the world and what was her (new) natural life - I wonder if that was a conscious comment made by Garnett on the restraints put upon women by society.
Garnett's for one a lot more humourous, although it's that typical dark british humour at work all over, and for other his observations about how we love and about relationships work feel a lot easier to relate to than Kafka's darkly nihilistic satire on family (the latter however may depend on your family).
I felt there to be something especially troubling, yet still pertinent to our modern thinking, to the way the husband's love and worry for his transformed wife drove him to try to shield her from danger by cutting her off from the world and what was her (new) natural life - I wonder if that was a conscious comment made by Garnett on the restraints put upon women by society.