sentences:  An autobiographical fiction, Mirbeau's tale chronicles the author's adventures with his pet dog Dingo while simultaneously offering a jaundiced view of country life, in Ponteilles-en-Barcis, a squalid town modeled on the village of Cormeilles-en-Vexin, where Mirbeau had the misfortune to reside.Carrying on in the same vein as "La 628-E8", in which the hero of the novel had been Mirbeau's automobile, "Dingo again" takes a non-human as its central character, the marauding, untamed creature that assumes mythical proportions in Mirbeau's book.Uncorrupted by social institutions, endowed with animal good sense, Dingo exposes the vices, duplicity, and venality of the local autochthons while also instructing his "master" in the virtue of living in harmony with the instincts.