The Lives of Animals (1999) is a collection of essays organized around the question of animal rights. The centerpiece of the collection is a novella entitled "The Lives of Animals" by the South African novelist, J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection features an introduction by Amy Gutmann, and following Coetzee’s contribution are reflections on his ideas by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts. The collection was published by Princeton University Press as part of its Human Values series.It is difficult to place The Lives of Animals within a literary genre because, while it is clearly polemic, Coetzee's central contribution to the project is fictionalized. His "Lives of Animals" first emerged as a series of 1997 lectures at Princeton, part of the university's ongoing Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Coetzee's original lecture, like the published work, was actually a short story featuring a recurring character, the novelist Elizabeth Costello – often identified as Coetzee's alter ego – who is invited to give a guest lecture and chooses to discuss not literature, but animal rights. In other words, his lecture closely mirrored the published novella.
ISBN (numero de identificación del libro)
0-691-07089-X
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127
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