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Running dog is a pejorative term for an unprincipled person who helps or flatters those who are more powerful and often evil. It is a literal translation of the Chinese pejorative 走狗 (pinyin: zǒugǒu ), meaning a yes-man or lackey , and is derived from the tendency of dogs to follow after humans in hopes of receiving food scraps.
1 de ene. de 1978 · Running Dog is a stripped-down 1970s thriller of wry paranoia. It alternates between several characters' viewpoints as they compete to acquire a film, possibly pornographic, shot in Hitler's bunker at the end of World War II. The novel's heroine is Moll Robbins, a journalist for the ironically-named radical magazine Running Dog.
11 de abr. de 2012 · DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the...
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4 de mar. de 2011 · As the paranoia builds and the combatants lose sight of their motives, their souls, even the object itself, Don DeLillo reveals the terrible truth behind our acquisitiveness in Running Dog – a masterful thriller from an award-winning novelist. America's greatest living writer.
Don DeLillo: Running Dog. A woman’s body is found in a deserted alley in Manhattan. It turns out to be a man in woman’s clothing. And it turns out that he had tried to sell the only copy of a pornographic film shot in the last days in Hitler’s bunker. The selling of the film revolves around a New York dealer called Lightborne, Glen Selvy ...
DeLillo’s Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to "star" Adolph Hitler leads to ...
