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The Lives of Animals

The Lives of Animals is a metafictional novella about animal rights by the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The work is introduced by Amy Gutmann and followed by a collection of responses by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger and Barbara Smuts. It was published by Princeton University Press as part of its Human Values series.


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“It was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies.”

Source: The Lives of Animals (1999), p. 53

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