The Plague Dogs
The dogs of the Black Death (orig. The Plague Dogs ) is a 1977 published novel by the English author Richard Adams. The German -language edition was released in 1979 in Ullstein, translation worried Mechtild Sandberg.
Action
In a research institute in the English Lake District animals are abused in the name of science in the most cruel manner. So the two dogs Woof (No. 732) and Snitter (No. 815).
Woof, was a strong black mongrel, has many experiments in a water tank terrified of water. At Snitter, a small fox terrier, has performed brain surgery. Snitter are themselves to blame for an accident in which his master died. By brain surgery Snitter lives between dream and reality.
One day succeeds the two dogs to escape from the institution. You embark on the search for a place without cruelty. Snitter longs for a new masters, the same good care of like his Lord. Woof, in contrast, believes that all people are cruel. You try to survive in the wilderness, but by the experiments they have been weaned from freedom.
They meet soon after a fox who teaches them to survive. Woof and Snitter learn how captured sheep and chickens. It seems that Woof and Snitter can live in the wild, but that should change soon.
An ambitious reporter spread the news that the two dogs are carriers of the bubonic plague. Through this hoax a merciless hunt begins on the dogs.
Effect
The author criticizes in his novel the meaning and purpose of animal testing and delivers it as a plea against animal cruelty. The British weekly newspaper The Observer described this novel as a true successor to the bottom of the river.
The fate of two dogs >> is symbolic of the depletion, the man committed against nature. A poetic, powerful, passionate committed tale of love and hope - against violence and for freedom << ( The Daily Telegraph).
Filming
The book was written by Martin Rosen as an animated film titled The dogs are going into a film. In the film, the same character style is applied as in the movie Watership Down.
- Literary work
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Literature ( English )
- Novel, epic
- Notional house dog
- Animal experiments