THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING A DOG by Roger Grenier, Alice Kaplan (Trans) ( 9780226308289 )

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Title:

THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING A DOG

By:

Roger Grenier, Alice Kaplan (Trans)

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0226308286

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9780226308289

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 April, 2002

Pages:

132

Translated from:

French

Description:

From Ulysses' Argo to Freud's Lun, these stories explore the mysterious and often intense relationship between human beings and dogs. Illustrating a broad knowledge of literary dog lovers, and elaborating on their insights, Grenier's volume abounds with humour and history.

Synopsis:

The forty-three lovingly crafted vignettes within The Difficulty of Being a Dog dig elegantly to the center of a long, mysterious, and often intense relationship: that between human beings and dogs. In doing so, Roger Grenier introduces us to dogs real and literary, famous and reviled - from Ulysses's Argos to Freud's Lun to the hundreds of dogs exiled from Constantinople in 1910 and deposited on a desert island - and gives us a sense of what makes our relationships with them so meaningful.

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