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'Since the publication of Kutcher’s "Elizabeth Costello", the heroine Costello’s sensational remarks comparing human slaughter of animals to the Nazi’s extermination of Jews has caused an uproar. "How to write poems after the Holocaust" is a fulcrum of thinking that cannot be ignored in Coetzee's observation of the post-Auschwitz literary outlet and breakthrough in this work. It has infiltrated his profound examination of the suffering of living beings, the nature of human nature and literary writing. . The two important lectures "Animal Life" and "The Problem of Evil" show Costello's perceptual breakdown and self-reflection in various uncertain and contradictory situations, focusing on the grand narrative of enlightenment rationality, especially the specific history of the Holocaust The extreme horror and absolute evil derived from the context highlight the trauma of post-modern fiction art in the process of shocking human imagination and ethical threshold...' (Publication abstract)
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Da Tu Sha Zhi Hou Ru He Xie Shi Yi Li Sha Bai Ke Si Te Luo de Chuang Shang Nei He Yu Biao Zheng Zuo Lun
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