His name is that of a drifter—an everyman’s first name—followed by a canine surname. Juan Perro, Santiago Auserón’s post-Radio Futura artistic alter-ego, turned his gaze from the glowing horizons of technological optimism, to an ancient troubadour tradition. First there was Juan Zorro, “the fox”, a medieval Galician troubadour, one of the first singers of the canidae tradition. Over the years, there have been other lone and hungry literary stalkers among us: from the Cynics to Kafka’s musical...