The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, “fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka.”
The Bridegroom Was a Dog begins with a schoolteacher telling a fable to her students. In the fable, a princess ...
The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, “fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka.”
The Bridegroom Was a Dog begins with a schoolteacher telling a fable to her students. In the fable, a princess promises her hand in marriage to a dog that has licked her bottom clean. The story takes an even stranger twist when that very dog appears to the schoolteacher in real life as a dog-like man. They develop a very sexual, romantic courtship with many allegorical overtones ― much to the chagrin of her friends.
作者简介
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Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes. Last year her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award.
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河南大学出版社2018版
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河南大学出版社2018版
0 有用 Hildegard 2013-10-22 16:26:07
lunchtime reading
0 有用 サー 2018-07-08 01:04:05
流畅啊 简直无懈可击
0 有用 Barroquería 2023-05-24 07:36:37 美国
怪怪
0 有用 SARANGI 2023-02-09 23:31:20 美国
SO WEIRD
0 有用 -Hyperion- 2024-08-17 20:07:11 荷兰
a writing that seems rather loose to me :( was expecting something able to be analysed from an animalistic perspective