The Bridegroom Was a Dog
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 -…
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Weitere Autoren: Mitsutani, Margaret (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2037-8
- EAN: 9780811220378
- Produktnummer: 13321511
- Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H17.8 cm x B11.8 cm x D0.7 cm 62 g
- Gewicht: 62
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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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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