Geoffrey household's Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs: a response to Robert Lance Snyder

[...]it helps rescue Household from almost total critical neglect; and, secondly, it opens up helpful new avenues for interpreting his fiction. [...]the features of the landscape are not simply picturesque. [...]there is no escaping the past, and Dennim's painstaking mapping out of the area reflects his attempts to bring his situation under control. [...]we have on one level a quasi-scientific narrative reminiscent of Wells and Conrad, on the other passing references to the politics of the 1960s like Mao's Cultural Revolution.