Animals depicted in NYRB Classics
What are your favorite portrayals of animals in NYRB Classics? Be they main, secondary or even tertiary characters or just well-written descriptions.
A few that I’ve encountered so far:
The cat Faro in Olivia Manning’s School for Love steals several scenes. Several cat lovers on Goodreads call put Faro in their reviews.
The dog Bréquillet is an at-times ominous, at others reassuring, but always inscrutable presence in Henri Bosco’s Malicroix.
Julius von Feldon’s three pet chimpanzees have a few slapstick scenes in Sybille Bedford’s A Legacy.
In Elizabeth Taylor’s Angel, the titular character is an animal lover who adores her brutish and slobbery dog Sultan, but the best depiction of animals is reserved for a scene in which a pair of unnamed cats play with water near the novel’s end.