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...HEAD (149 pp.) Jean Dutourd-Simon & Schuster...
...Taught a Lesson. French Author Dutourd might well have dropped his story at this point, had it been his intention simply to excoriate the human race for its treatment of those who are physically afflicted. Instead, he presses on in his terse, deadpan prose to teach a lesson to the afflicted of the world as well. The happier Edmond becomes, the more worried he grows. The more his mistress, Anne adores him, the more convinced he is that she must be mad to love a man with a dog's head. He sends her to a psychiatric hospital...
...wits and all of his money. He has also put his psychology into reverse: instead of trying to behave like a normal human being, he now struggles to become a normal dog. French and English reviewers of this blunt and ferocious book have likened 32-year-old Author Dutourd to Voltaire and Jonathan Swift, and have sifted out various interpretations of the Dutourd message. Dutourd himself is no great help: "I am not trying to prove anything," he says- "merely to tell a story...