Research Catalog

Title

Albina and the dog-men : a fantastical novel / Alejandro Jodorowsky ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam ; with illustrations by François Boucq.

Author

Jodorowsky, Alejandro

Publication

Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941-
• Boucq

Description

218 pages : illustrations; 19 cm

Summary

A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social and moral fabric of a small town. Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelic freak-out films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky turns the classic stranger-comes-to-town narrative on its head in his novel Albina and the Dog-Men. When two women--a beautiful amnesiac albino giantess and her protector, a leather-tough woman called Crabby--arrive in this South American desert town, Albina's otherworldly allure and unfettered sensuality turns men into wild animals. Chased at the same time by a clubfoot criminal, Albina and Crabby must fend off their aggressors before the town consumes itself in an orgy of lust and violence.

Uniform Title

Albina y los hombres-perro. English

Alternative Title

Albina y los hombres-perro.

Subjects

• Fiction
• Fantasy fiction
• Peru > Fiction
• Chile > Fiction
• Amnesiacs > Fiction
• Albinos and albinism > Fiction
• Women > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fantasy fiction
• Fiction

Note

• Originally published: Albina y los hombres-perro, Ediciones Siruela, 2002.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 163206054X
• 9781632060549

OCLC

• 918284817
• SCSB-11906303

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library