We read in the
Village Voice one more review of
Lucy Ellmann's Doctors & Nurses. It sheds a little more light on how far it goes to 'retell' Jane Eyre:
A copy of Jane Eyre is Jen's constant companion; just like Jane, Jen will save her swain from a mysterious fire and discover at an inopportune moment that her husband-to-be is another creature's groom, when "a dark, wet, hairy, slimy purplish thing like a walking vulva made her way up the aisle, grovelling, bleeding, drooling, stinking, swelling. What base cunt was this?" Excuse the language. Judge for yourself how Charlotte would have welcomed such a retelling of her tale. But now you understand why it was deemed 'incensed', don't you?
Categories: Jane_Eyre, Books, References
I love that description! It's Bertha The Female Id through the diseased eyes of a crazt Freudian. I went looking for this book today in Waterstones. 'Oh, it's in Humour!' the girl said. Well, I suppose it is humour, but any novel treating JE must have some seriosity. I am going to wait until it comes out on paperback, anyways.
ReplyDeleteIn Humour?! I didn't see that coming :S
ReplyDeleteWell, if you ever read it, let us know how you like it, or whether you really laughed.