Weary Old DogsAgeing Masculinities in Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s Los perros duros no bailan
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Universitat de València
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ISSN: 1475-3820, 1478-3428
Année de publication: 2022
Titre de la publication: Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature
Volumen: 99
Número: 4
Pages: 619-639
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Résumé
Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s short novel Los perros duros no bailan (2018) is the first of the prolific Spanish writer’s attempts at animal fable and allegory. This postmodern and highly intertextual novel explores the nature of masculinity and ageing in a hostile world of violence and conflict. The aim of this article is to analyse the role of the motif of the dog, and the way in which the author deploys it as mechanism through which to communicate issues around gender, age, history and Spanish identity.