{"id":1469,"date":"2016-06-06T21:36:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2020-04-04T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:52:54","slug":"mr-fox-helen-oyeyemi-prerequisites-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/mr-fox-helen-oyeyemi-prerequisites-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi : Prerequisites and After Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"
Meet Mr. Fox, celebrated writer who loves killing off the heroines in his book. He is married to Daphne Fox and things are going fine until his imaginary muse, Mary Foxe, enters the scene. Mary belittles him for his treatment of female heroines and challenges his literary actions. She tries to change the course of his stories \u00a0by transforming him (and wife) from author into subject and thus unfolding a different story. Meanwhile Daphne suspects her husband is having an affair. And then Daphne and Mary meet each other face-to-face.<\/p>\n
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Mr. Fox <\/em>is a dumpling. A dumpling of magical realism filled with finely chopped bits of fantasy and literary fiction. The book cannot be strictly categorized into a genre since chapters often slip into fairytale retellings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I so loved this read. Which is why I thought I would break it down for those who want to pick this book. Hence the long (oops, very long) review, because this is a book for which if you aren’t sure you would enjoy the following characteristics, chances are you would end up cursing your decision to buy it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr. Fox <\/em> spreads unbounded through alternate-reality stories of the three main characters. At the core is the marital discord between Mr. Fox and Daphne due to the dominance of his fantasy world as well as reversal of conventional paradigms between the writer and his muse. There are arguments about violence against women in art, the relevance of stories, and about identity in a patriarchal, colonial world.<\/p>\n &nbps;<\/p>\n Who tells the story? This is a question the reader would be wondering throughout. Some stories are clearly told by one of the protagonists, others could be attributed to any (or none) of them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Many of the stories are spinoffs of the famous fairytales of Perrault\u2019s Bluebeard<\/em> and Brother Grimm\u2019s Fletcher\u2019s bird<\/em>. It would be helpful to know a bit about the stories. One line recap \u2013 Bluebeard is known for marrying young girls and killing them later. His last wife escapes her fate in a clever way, each ending different in different versions of the fairytale.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nWhat to expect><\/h3>\n
Prerequisites<\/h3>\n
My favourite stories<\/h3>\n