Albina and the Dog Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Instead, the two women go on the run - eventually winding up in the sleepy town of Camiña, led there by Amado, whom they saved from suicide (a desperate attempt at escape from Camiña - a town that death forgot and where no one dies).Ĭrabby and Albina set up shop in Camiña - and immediately draw large crowds of transfixed men. It makes for a successful business too - until an inspector shows up and threatens to close them down if they don't make a deal with him. The men are transfixed, and worship Albina, their: 'sexual desire transformed into mystical adoration'. When Crabby is detained for a few weeks by the authorities for her illegal dealings, Albina transforms her shop into a different kind of enterprise: performing for the local men - something between striptease, dance, and religious ritual. Within six months Albina is more or less fully adult, but retains an air of innocence.

It leads to Crabby coming across the young woman she calls Albina, saving her from an attack and then nurturing this creature who has lost all her memory and is as innocent as a baby. It's already a remarkable piece of writing - quick and summary, but vivid and revealing in its arresting imagery and brief highlights. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.Īlbina and the Dog-Men begins with a sketch of the life of one of the main characters, nicknamed Crabby (who already at a young age identifies with the nickname and accepts: 'the idea of being an aggressive crab separated from others by a hard shell').

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'A surrealist novel par excellence, Albina and the Dog-Men is a dream, a prophecy, a hallucination, and a transfiguration such as only Jodorowsky could induce.' - Publishers Weekly.

Spanish title: Albina y los hombres-perro.

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Albina and the Dog Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky