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THE WOUNDED ANIMAL This page intentionally left blank THE WOUNDED ANIMAL J. M. COETZEE AND THE DIFFICULTY OF REALITY IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY STEPHEN MULHALL PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright(cid:148)2009byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,6OxfordStreet, Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201TW AllRightsReserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Mulhall,Stephen,1962– Thewoundedanimal:J.M.Coetzeeandthedifﬁcultyofrealityin literatureandphilosophy/StephenMulhall. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-691-13736-0(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-0-691-13737-7(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Coetzee,J.M.,1940—Criticismandinterpretation. 2.Coetzee,J.M.,1940—Philosophy.3.Philosophyinliterature. 4.Animals(Philosophy)5.Literature—Philosophy.I.Title. PR9369.3.C58Z862009 823(cid:99)14—dc22 2008015470 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinSabon Printedonacid-freepaper.(cid:102) press.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Istillbelievethatnogoodjokeiseverracist.AndIbelieveitforthesame reasons that I believe no good play or novel is ever racist, regardless of the politics of its author. The discourse of racism is bald, monotonous, unquestioning,single-voicedanddesolate.Art,whenitisgood...isnone of those things. Art is dramatic, and by dramatic I mean that it holds everythinginoppositionandsuspense. Themomentartforgetsitisdramaticandgrowstendentious,themo- ment it begins to formulate a programme for the amelioration of man- kind,orforspreadingfaithordisbelief,orforpromotingracialdisquiet orracialharmony,itceasestobeart.Andagoodjokebelongstoart.Call italittlenovel,comprisingvoicesatintellectualandmoraloddswithone another, taking you by surprise and told, vertiginously, by a narrator it wouldnotbewiseofyoutotrust. Thusinart,domattersofmoralitywaituponaesthetics. HowardJacobson Thewoundedisthewoundingheart. RichardCrashaw This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS ix CHAPTERONE Introduction:TheAncientQuarrel 1 PARTONE:THELIVESOFANIMALS 19 CHAPTERTWO ElizabethCostello’sLecture:Stories,Thought-Experiments, andLiteral-Mindedness 21 CHAPTERTHREE ElizabethCostello’sLecture:ThreePhilosophers andaNumberofApes 36 CHAPTERFOUR FoodforThought:TwoSymposia 58 CHAPTERFIVE FoodforThought:AThirdSymposium 69 CHAPTERSIX FoodforThought:AnUninvitedGuest? 95 CHAPTERSEVEN ElizabethCostello’sSeminar:TwoPoetsandaNovelist 110 CHAPTEREIGHT ElizabethCostello’sSeminar:PrimatologyandAnimalTraining, PhilosophyandLiteraryTheory 122 PARTTWO:ELIZABETHCOSTELLO 137 CHAPTERNINE Realism,Modernism,andtheNovel 139 CHAPTERTEN Costello’sRealistModernism,andCoetzee’s 162 CHAPTERELEVEN TheBodyinAfrica 184 viii CONTENTS CHAPTERTWELVE EvilasObscenity 203 CHAPTERTHIRTEEN TwoEmbodimentsoftheKafkaesque 214 CHAPTERFOURTEEN Conclusion:ThreePostscripts 231 BIBLIOGRAPHY 253 INDEX 257 ABBREVIATIONS AA C.Diamond,“AnythingbutArgument,”inTheRealisticSpirit (Cambridge:MITPress,1991). AT V.Hearne,Adam’sTask:CallingAnimalsbyName (NewYork:HarperPerennial,1994). AAT M.Fried,AbsorptionandTheatricality: PaintingandBeholderintheAgeofDiderot (Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1980). CR O.O’Neill,“CriticalReviewofClark,TheMoralStatus ofAnimals,”JournalofPhilosophy77(1980). DP J.M.Coetzee,DoublingthePoint,ed.D.Attwell (Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,1992). DR A.CraryandS.Shieh,eds.,ReadingCavell (London:Routledge,2006). E S.Mitchell,Erotikon(NewYork:HarperCollins,2000). EC J.M.Coetzee,ElizabethCostello:EightLessons (London:SeckerandWarburg,2003). EK J.McMahan,TheEthicsofKilling(Oxford:Oxford UniversityPress,2002). EM C.Diamond,“EatingMeatandEatingPeople”in TheRealisticSpirit(Cambridge:MITPress,1991). EN T.Eagleton,TheEnglishNovel:AnIntroduction (Oxford:Blackwell,2005). FCM M.Heidegger,FundamentalConceptsofMetaphysics, trans.W.McNeillandN.Walker(Bloomington:Indiana UniversityPress,1995). LA J.M.Coetzee,TheLivesofAnimals(Princeton:Princeton UniversityPress,1999). LC H.vonHofmannsthal,TheLordChandosLetterand OtherWritings,trans.J.Rotenberg(NewYork:NewYork ReviewBooks,2005). MSA S.Clark,TheMoralStatusofAnimals(NewYork:Oxford UniversityPress,1977). PAL S.Cavelletal.,PhilosophyandAnimalLife(NewYork:Columbia UniversityPress,2008). PD R.Gaita,ThePhilosopher’sDog(Melbourne:Text Publishing,2002). PE O.O’Neill,“ThePowerofExample,”Philosophy61(1986).

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In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee's lectures were

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