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Books : The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series)
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The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series) by: J. M. Coetzee Vegetarian Books Price: £11.50 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780691070896 ISBN: 069107089X Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 130 Publication Date: April 16, 2001 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press Sales Rank: 17498 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The Lives of Animals - buy it!This is one of the most fantastic books I have ever read. No wonder it won the Booker prize. A brilliant, concise, compassionate, inspirational look at our perception and treatment of other, non-human animals. Quite literally life changing. Rating:  - Less fiction than theory- vanity projectCoetzee explores in this work the sentiency of non-human animals in a mostly one-sided way. The argument ranges from the philosophical (can animals reason?) to the controversial (comparing animal slaughter to the gas chambers of the Jewish holocaust). It seems bizarre dressing up what is actually an ethical dilemma up in fiction especially as the novella is in one part monologue and the other dialogue with very little narrative interruption- this means that Coetzee's personal opinions are hidden on the subject. Although I personally believe a move to defend the rights of animals is a commendable and correct stance to take I feel Coetzee is, in effect, "tricking" the reader through using a fictional setting. The format also debases his work, ... Read More: Rating: - Another masterpiece from a masterPowerful . Penetrating . Disturbing . Reading Coetzee is sometimes like walking through a desert strewn with broken bottles and barbed wire . Even so , the result is invariably uplifting and enriching . And so , no less , is The Lives Of Animals , Coetzee's latest work . Couched in the form of fiction , and with a searing compression that resembles Samuel Becketts later prose , Coetzee skilfully probes the complex subject of animal rights . The prose is beautifully clean and lucid , excoriating at times . The vexed question of whether animals have a soul and a conscience and therefore deserve rights on the same footing as humans , is the driving force behind the narrative . Alluding to philosophers such as the currently feted Peter Singer , and ... Read More: |
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