Literary dogs

This is the famous “Negro Matapacos” (Black cop killer), the dog that accompanied several marches and protests in Chile. Although this dog died a few years ago, today it has become a symbol of struggle during social revolts in Chile since last October 18.

So long to the Chilean anti-poet Nicanor Parra (1914-2018)

One of the greatest writers of the XXth century, Brazilian Joao Guimaraes Rosa with two cats and a dog

Christian Dior’s fashionable dog.

Eileen Myles and Rosie <3

Beautiful picture of writer Stefan Zweig. 

Actor Jack Lemmon with foxy beauty

Karenin, the dog that belongs to Tereza (Juliette Binoche) in the novel “The unbearable lightness of being” by Milan Kundera. 

An autoportrait of french writer Emile Zola with his pooch Pimpin in 1895.

Woman with Samoyed, by Edvard Munch (1929-1930)

American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi with his lovely terrier.

July 1935 shot of Leonard Cohen (10 months) and his first dog, Kelef

Italian writer and journalist Curzio Malaparte, author of  Il Volga nasce in Europa (1943), Kaputt (1944), Il sole è cieco (1947) and La Pelle (1949).

Luis Buñuel and his wife Jeanne Rucar with a surrealistic fox terrier. Mexico City, 1971.

Jean Paul Belmondo with a beautiful dog in the film Un homme et son chien (2009).