What is it about?
Los perros duros no bailan (2018) follows the model of Cervantes´ “El coloquio de los perros” in both form and content. Not only dogs can talk, but its narrative shares its ‘exempla’ intention, its mixture of reality and fiction and its use of references to those considered classic by its author. The borderline between reality and fantasy is blurred in order to show the miseries of society. In order to transgress the anthropomorphic point of view which has given way to a world full of violence and corruption, the limits between the world of humans and that of animals is diluted by the so called “animal turn”. Following the model of “El coloquio”, Pérez-Reverte uses his own classics, -Cervantes, Shakespeare, Dante, Conrad, Orwell, Mailer-, historical references, -Espartacus-, and film, -Blade Runner-, to show us a world of violence and injustice, but also one of heroism, loyalty and utopia
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Why is it important?
This short novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte has been deemed as a lesser work. However, a close analysis reveals a deep intertextual connection with a number of world literary classics.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has a co-author with whom I have had long standing collaborations; the director of the Arturo Pérez-Reverte Catedra at the Universidad de Murcia
Dr Emilio L Ramon
Universidad Catolica de Valencia San Vicente Martir
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This page is a summary of: PÉREZ-REVERTE, Arturo. (2018). Los perros duros no bailan. Alfaguara. ISBN: 978-84-204-3269-4, 160 pp., Alfinge Revista de Filología, February 2019, Cordoba University Press (UCOPress),
DOI: 10.21071/arf.v30i0.11400.
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