La perra de mi vida

Synopsis of La perra de mi vida

«La perra de mi vida» is the account by Claude Duneton, published by Malpaso in hardback (103 pages, in Spanish).

Rita, a mongrel dog who neither obeys nor is good for anything, is the centre of the account. Her owner, a boy named Claude, is the only one who cares for her, while he discovers the harshness of life in occupied French Limousin. Irony, humour and sensitivity mix with cruelty; the boy yearns for an ideal bourgeois order, distinguishing drama from its parody.

Translation and prologue by Antonio Soler. Original title: «La chienne de ma vie». Part of the Ensayo General collection.

For readers of autobiographical narrative: a short account of childhood, occupied France and the bond between a boy and his dog.