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Lady into Fox - 3 stars. Fun and bizarre magical realism about a sudden transformation, coming a decade after Kafka's Metamorphosis. Maybe it's an allegory about women's changing place in society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Maybe it's about nothing.
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Lady into fox ; and, A man in the zoo by Garnett, David, 1892-1981. Publication date 1985 Publisher London : Hogarth Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. 90, 93 p. : 20 cm Notes. text run ...
Lady into Fox and a Man in the Zoo | Garnett, David | ISBN: 9780701219239 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
Silvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly becomes a fox while they are out walking in the woods. Mr. Tebrick sends away all the servants in an attempt to keep Silvia's new nature a secret, although Silvia's childhood nurse returns.
- David Garnett
- 1922
27. Sept. 2012 · Garnett has dropped the Defoe-esque (apparently) style of Lady into Fox, but he’s still in person-as-animal territory – although this time there is nothing fantastic at play. John Cromartie and Josephine Lackett are visiting the zoo, and are in the middle of an argument.
29. Nov. 2003 · But here we have something very different. A grown lady is changed straightway into a fox. There is no explaining that away by any natural philosophy. The materialism of our age will not help us here.
1922 erschien seine erste satirisch-phantastische Erzählung "Meine Frau die Füchsin" (Lady into Fox), ein bezaubernd bizarres literarisches Kabinettstück, das ihm den Hawthornden-Preis, den James Tait Black Gedenkpreis und den Prix Femina gewann.
