THE LIVES OF ANIMALS

127pp., hardback, d.w., New Jersey, 1999

J.M. Coetzee's essays were originally presented as lectures given by the character Elizabeth Costello in his novel, Elizabeth Costello.

The text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by literary theorist Marjorie Garber, moral philosopher Peter Singer, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, and primatologist Barbara Smuts.