Albina and the dog-men

a fantastical novel

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Alejandro Jodorowsky: Albina and the dog-men (2016)

218 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2016

ISBN:
978-1-63206-054-9
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OCLC Number:
918284817

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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.

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Subjects

  • Women
  • Amnesiacs
  • Albinos and albinism
  • Fiction

Places

  • Chile
  • Peru