“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”

J. M. Coetzee

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About J. M. Coetzee

Author South African

J. M. Coetzee is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and academic who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His works often explore themes of apartheid, colonialism, and the complexities of...

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