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Phoenix Fiction Ser.: A Dog's Head by Jean Dutourd (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Jean Dutourd's A Dog's Head is a wonderful piece of magical realism, reminiscent of Voltaire, Borges and Kafka. With biting wit, Dutourd presents the story of Edmund Du Chaillu, a boy born, to his bourgeois parents's horror, with the head of a spaniel. Edmund must endure his school-mate's teasing as well as an urge to carry a newspaper in his mouth. This is the story of his life, trials, and joys as he searches for a normal life of worth and love. "Dutourd is a fine craftsman, whose work has the classic virtues of brevity, lucidity, and concentration. He has written a sardonic divertissement that concerns itself with fundamental problems of man's existence-a tale that is sad-eyed, witty, and often very funny."-Charles J. Rolo, New York Times Book Review "A tiny masterpiece in the French classical tradition. . . . Stylish, elegant and witty, and told with an apparent lightheartedness that points to rather than obscures the hero's essential tragedy."-P. L. Travers, New York Herald Tribune "Wit, a good deal of shrewd classical allusion, and a Voltarian satire are the book's assets."-Edmund Fuller, Chicago Tribune "The work of an expert craftsman and of a careful writer of prose, ending with the rarest gift in modern letters: the comic spirit."-Henri Peyre, The Saturday Review "Dutourd might well have dropped his story at this point, had it been his intention simply to excoriate the human race for its treatment of those who are physically afflicted. Instead, he presses on in his terse, deadpan prose to teach a lesson to the afflicted of the world as well."- Time " A Dog's Head is one of the most curious, most beautifully conceived and written fantasies you've ever come across."-J. H. Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle " A Dog's Head is an excellent joke in the worst possible taste, and its author, M. Jean Dutourd, is a satirist of the first rank."- New Yorker

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226174921
ISBN-13
9780226174921
eBay Product ID (ePID)
371301

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dog's Head
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jean Dutourd
Book Series
Phoenix Fiction Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
97-051257
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
843.91
Lc Classification Number
Pq2607.U865t413 1998
Copyright Date
1998

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