The Difficulty of Being a Dog
Contributors: Alice Kaplan (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780226308289
Subjects: Dogs; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Fiction; Pets; Dogs - General; Essays; Pets / Essays; Literary
First sentence: A few years ago, whenever a tourist visited Paul Valery's famous oceanside cemetery at Sete and asked the caretaker to show him the location of Paul Valery's tombstone, the caretaker would wake up his dog and give the command, "Valery!" Whereupon the dog, all on its own, would lead the tourist to the poet's grave.