A review by sotweedfactor
Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi

3.0

A fairly decent book, and I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would. Fascinating look into the way banality seeps into our lives, and how we adjust and rationalize it. In reading the book plainly, you would think Skylark is the cause of the banality in the parents lives, but that could not be further from the truth. The truth is the parents are complicit in their own banality in their treatment of Skylark, and in the end, the reader has to question who is really the suffocating presence in the relationship, or if, they are all suffocating each other.