El coloquio de los perros (The Conversation of the Dogs or Dialogue between Cipión and Berganza) is a short story from the collection Novelas ejemplares. Written by Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, it is actually the continuation of a story entitled El casamiento engañoso (The Deceitful Wedding), which is about a dishonest suitor duped out of his wealth by his conniving young bride. The experience lands the suitor in a hospital from syphilis, and through a window of it, presumably in a delirium, he sees and hears two dogs begin to speak at the stroke of midnight. This gives Cervantes an opportunity to humorously satirize the society in which he lived; the dog Berganza tells the other dog, Cipión (Scipio), about his experiences with his human masters and comments on other aspects of society such as greed, gypsies, dishonesty, honor, and witchcraft. Cipión was to tell his story the following night, but the story ends. Cervantes leaves the reader to determine whether or not the dogs have actually been talking or the bedridden man has imagined it.
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