Similarly Adam Roberts warns against a too narrow an interpretation of Le Guin's fiction, pointing out that her writing is always balanced and that "balance as such forms one of her major concerns. Both Left Hand and The Dispossed (1974) balance form to theme, of symbol to narration, flawlessly". Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the novel The Left Hand of Darkness is steeped in anthropological thought, with one academic critic noting that "the theories of [French anthropologist] Claude Lévi-Strauss provide an access to understanding the workings of the myths" in the novel.Walker, Jeanne Murray. "Myth, Exchange and History in The Left Hand of Darkness", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Jul., 1979), pp.180-189 Later in the essay the author explains:
