by J. M. Coetzee · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475968056
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«Les vides dels animals» is the contemporary fiction novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (112 pages, in Catalan).
Elisabeth Costello, an Australian novelist, is invited to an American university to speak about animal rights. Her lecture denounces anthropocentrism and the philosophical fallacies that legitimise mistreatment of other species, and proposes a different relationship with the animal kingdom.
It belongs to the Empúries Narrativa collection (no. 163), in its second edition, translated by Concepció Iribarren Donadéu. The original title is The Lives of Animals.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking a novel with philosophical and ethical debate about the relationship with animals.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
