The sensuality of the prose thickens as Albina’s situation becomes more tenuous, resulting in heady and appealing constructions: 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.
She and Crabby set out on a last quest: to find a cure for Albina’s otherworldly and transformative powers. Albina’s gyrations prove to be too much for the town, though, whose inhabitants are existentially threatened by the particular developments in her sex appeal. When Albina, a beautiful, unearthly woman with no memory and endless appeal, appears before her, she experiences her first real sense of human connection.īut Albina attracts all measure of salacious and dangerous characters, too, and soon she and Crabby must flee from the most vicious of these-into a town that death has forgotten, guarded by killer bees, and accompanied by a hatmaker who tucks thoughts of suicide away for the duo’s sake. His general indifference instills in her a sense that she is a hopeless misfit. No moment of Jodorowsky’s book is at all predictable, and those who have a taste for the uncanny will be in awe over its undulations into strange, even godly, territory.Ĭomposed 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.Ĭrabby is not the boy that her Yiddish-speaking father wanted, but he dubs her “Isaac” anyway.
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