The Dogs

Noah Ross

In Noah Ross’s The Dogs, Ross opens the question of authority and possession in what he deems an illicit act of translation. The Dogs may begin with Herve Guibert’s 'Les Chiens', but through multiple reiterations of translation, Guibert’s text ultimately meets Ross to celebrate, among other sources, Marie de France, Teen Wolf, Auden, and Dom Orejudos in establishing a unique pack of hungry werewolves. You know what happens when werewolves get together: the play can get a little rough. The Dogs empowers these snarls and yips, growls and howls, on the level of the sentence in translation as much as the embodied erotogenic zones of the body.