![]() No this sexy, raucous, mystical and amazing book is just too surreal. For me there is not enough realism in this book to be magic realism. But while I consider both Carrington's and Winterson's novels to be magic realism, I do not find Albina and the Dog Men to be so. The other book I was reminded of was Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry,whose monstrous and remarkable central character not only is called the Dog Woman but has the same elemental strength as Jodorowsky's two central female characters. ![]() When I first read Albina and the Dog Men and before I researched the book's author, I was very much reminded of Carrington's work of magic realism. In Mexico he became friends with the British surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, whose book The Hearing Trumpet I reviewed in the early days of this blog. From 1950 he divided his time between France and Mexico. As we have seen in other books reviewed on this blog, there are strong magic-realist South American, Jewish and Eastern European traditions and Jodorowsky was heir to all three. Jodorowsky was born in Chile in 1929 to Jewish Ukranian parents. ![]() It is worth examining Alejandro Jodorowsky's magic-realist and surrealist heritage. ![]()
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