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Death Sty: A Pig's Tale
" À pied, à cheval, à l'intérieur des camions frigorifiques ou dans les boites de conserve, mon avenir est assuré. Mes rôtis et côtelettes sentent déjà l'appel du grand large. " Au seuil de l'abattoir, " prodigieuse aventure ", un cochon plein de sagesse explique les solides principes qui l'ont guidé pour atteindre au but de toute une vie : livrer à l'humanité des jambons de premier choix, pour l'honneur de la race porcine. Avec un humour proche de l'absurde, Raymond Cousse fait à travers ce moraliste ronchon le procès de la société de consommation, du suivisme et du conformisme bourgeois.
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96 pages, Unbound
First published January 1, 1978
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October 22, 2024
The section on the Edifice drags but overall very good
June 3, 2012
Cousse’ narrator is a hog waiting to be slaughtered: a happy cog on a great big wheel of commerce. “I am a law-abiding hog,” the pig proclaims proudly. “So long as I control my merchandise, not one iota will be diverted from the legal market.”
In fact, he dreams of a future when the process will achieve its ultimate level of efficiency: “The time is not far distant when the hog will be able to forgo their assistance and take his factor into his own hands”: “A trajectory without any hitches, completely planned from womb to package.”
At the same time, Cousse translates Stoicism from the classical past to the technological present. It was Seneca, after all, who wrote that “Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born.” Cousse’s pig understands and accepts his purpose and derives a sense of peace from it. Indeed, Cousse draws a parallel between the pig and Christ at the Last Supper: “And joining action to words, I add: take, eat, this is my ham; and behold my tripes that are offered for you, and drink my blood before it coagulates, but only grant that we may lay aside our quarrels so that we can offer to the world the image of a body united in its purpose.”
Despite its atrocious title, Death Sty: A Pig's Tale: A Novel turns out to be a work that’s far more likely to be a cause for reflection than revulsion. Those who can get past the cover will discover that rare thing, a mesmerizing philosophical piece.
Read more at: http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1294
In fact, he dreams of a future when the process will achieve its ultimate level of efficiency: “The time is not far distant when the hog will be able to forgo their assistance and take his factor into his own hands”: “A trajectory without any hitches, completely planned from womb to package.”
At the same time, Cousse translates Stoicism from the classical past to the technological present. It was Seneca, after all, who wrote that “Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born.” Cousse’s pig understands and accepts his purpose and derives a sense of peace from it. Indeed, Cousse draws a parallel between the pig and Christ at the Last Supper: “And joining action to words, I add: take, eat, this is my ham; and behold my tripes that are offered for you, and drink my blood before it coagulates, but only grant that we may lay aside our quarrels so that we can offer to the world the image of a body united in its purpose.”
Despite its atrocious title, Death Sty: A Pig's Tale: A Novel turns out to be a work that’s far more likely to be a cause for reflection than revulsion. Those who can get past the cover will discover that rare thing, a mesmerizing philosophical piece.
Read more at: http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1294
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