![]() Not long after being granted human consciousness, twelve of the dogs escape the clinic and attempt to survive without “masters,” roaming the city’s lakeshore before settling in a pocket of High Park. ![]() Out of convenience, this supernatural social experiment is conducted on fifteen dogs, who happen to be spending the night at a veterinary clinic near the Wheat Sheaf Tavern in Toronto, where the gods have spent a debaucherous night being worshipped. ‘I’ll wager a year’s servitude,’ said Apollo, ‘that animals - any animal you choose - would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they had human intelligence.’”įor Hermes to win, at least one of the animals must be happy at the end of his or her life. ![]() It all begins with a bet between two immortal gods, Apollo and Hermes: “‘I wonder,’ said Hermes, ‘what it would be like if animals had human intelligence.’. Yet this story endeavours to delve even deeper by examining what German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once called humanity’s greatest conceit: our ability to invent knowledge. ![]() Like his previous book, Pastoral, which explores a Catholic priest’s crisis of faith, Fifteen Dogs is teeming with existential reflections. ![]() André Alexis’s new novella is an allegorical take on the value and detriment of human consciousness. ![]()
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