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How Is a Metamorphosis of a Lady into a Fox Possible? A Philosophical Comment on David Garnett's Lady into Fox
- Philosophy and Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 46, Number 2, October 2022
- pp. 398-414
- 10.1353/phl.2022.0026
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Describing the metamorphosis of a beloved wife into a vixen, David Garnett's novella Lady into Fox does not depict a possible world that is remote from our actual one. This metamorphosis is a metaphor, a speech act embedded in a literary description of actual reality, in which marriage, dissociated from natural, free untrammeled love, turns into a hunt—terminating in the horrible death of the wife as a hunted vixen. The unity of the literary realism and fantasy, as a metaphor, is what makes Lady into Fox such a moving novella.
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