Running Dog

Running Dog

infobox Book |
name = Running Dog
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image_caption = "Running Dog" by Don DeLillo
author = Don DeLillo
cover_artist = Karl Korab
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Novel
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
release_date = 1978
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 246 (hardback first edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-394-50143-8
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"Running Dog" is a literal translation into English of the Chinese/Korean/Communist insult 走狗 'Zou Gou', meaning lackey. Its first recorded use in English was in 1937.

Running Dog is also the title of a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo. At its center is a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler, purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. The novel follows a journalist as she tries to penetrate a murky black market of wealthy erotic-art collectors in order to locate the film. The tale grows increasingly wild and violent as she closes in on this bizarre grail.

The book derives its title from a fictional "underground" magazine modeled on "Rolling Stone". This publication also featured in "Great Jones Street".

References

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=r&p=20

http://wordsmith.org/words/running_dog.html


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