Weary Old DogsAgeing Masculinities in Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s Los perros duros no bailan

  1. Claudia Alonso-Recarte 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
    info

    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Revista:
Bulletin of Spanish Studies

ISSN: 1475-3820 1478-3428

Ano de publicación: 2022

Título do exemplar: Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature

Volume: 99

Número: 4

Páxinas: 619-639

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2022.2095864 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Outras publicacións en: Bulletin of Spanish Studies

Obxectivos de Desenvolvemento Sustentable

Resumo

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.