The surreal methods of redemption in the novel’s final pages prove both glorious and moving. The sensuality of the prose thickens as Albina’s situation becomes more tenuous, resulting in heady and appealing constructions.… As Albina and her followers traipse over barren lands and into forests protected by ancient Incans, the novel winds toward territory both magical and needfully human. “Composed like a feverish fairytale, Albina and the Dog-Men is a South American parable of self-acceptance and belonging that is fueled by prurience and colored with vivid, hallucinogenic details.… No moment of Jodorowsky’s book is at all predictable or familiar, and those who have a taste for the uncanny will be in awe over its undulations into strange, even godly, territory. “ may be the ultimate piece of Jodorowsky arcana, a mind-bending adventure story on par with his wildest cinematic visions.… 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.” And, as with life, it is sometimes only through the weathering of a storm that our true capacities are made clear.” At its core, Albina and the Dog-Men is a love story about two people committed to one another's survival and to discovering their potential. He is a fully realized artist whose tales demand attention. For years Jodorowsky has proven the intensity of his imagination, and how far he is willing to go to present his singular vision to the world. And while some of the subject matter is disturbing, it often carries the air of something ancient that you read children by a fire.
It is also ripe with horror and philosophical questions about what it means to belong, everywhere and nowhere. Throughout this dark dream of a novel, Jodorowsky's writing is comic and occasionally mesmerizing. a fantastical and genre-defying parable of love and friendship…. “In his latest novel, Jodorowsky builds on his multi-decade long assault of the public imagination…. “Deeply psychological and mysterious, the book will stimulate the imagination of the reader's mind to the extreme.”
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