![]() ![]() As fifteen dogs in a kennel in Toronto suddenly awaken to a world full of color and an unfamiliar sense of awareness, readers are taken through the journey of what it might be like to live as an animal with a human intellect. In posing the question of whether animals would die happier with the capacity of human consciousness, Alexis provides a bleak yet revitalizing tale of human mortality and the gift, or curse, of superior intelligence. ![]() Arguing over what sets humans apart from other animals, the gods settle by granting fifteen dogs the presumed gift of human intelligence. In a narrative that questions the righteousness of humanity, Alexis frames his novel around a disagreement between Zeus’s two sons, Apollo and Hermes, who argue about whether or not animals would be happier with the intellectual capacity of humans. isbn 9781552453056 Canadian writer André Alexis invents a modern Greek mythology in his 2015 novel Fifteen Dogs, bringing together prose and poetry, consciousness and animal instinct, humans and dogs. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:įiction André Alexis. ![]()
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