Pensamientos, reflexiones y anécdotas narradas en pequeñas prosas poéticas que configuran una breve autobiografía. De ahí que a los recuerdos de su perra le sigan los de su propia infancia, como un modo de plasmar el misterio de la existencia. “Pero finalmente lo vi. La conexión entre el amor y la muerte. Y que el propósito de la muerte es liberar el dolor”.
In 2015, Laurie Anderson (musician, writer, artist, performer and partner of Lou Reed) premiered the documentary Heart of a dog. There we met his dog Lolabelle, a blind rat terrier who could paint abstract works, model sculptures in plasticine and make melodies in a small pianito. In the book of the same name, translated by Patricio Grinberg, Anderson offers us the material from which these images are made, from the death of his dog.
Thoughts, reflections and anecdotes narrated in small poetic prose that make up a brief autobiography. Hence, the memories of his dog are followed by those of his own childhood, as a way of capturing the mystery of existence. "But I finally saw it. The connection between love and death. And that the purpose of death is to release the pain."