Volume 48, Number 14 · September 20, 2001
Dog Days
By Michael Wood
Amores Perros
a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, written by Guillermo Arriaga
At the end of The Trial, Kafka's Joseph K says to himself that he is dying 'like a dog,' that is, disgracefully. 'It was as if the shame would outlive him.' In Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee's protagonist dedicates himself to 'the service of dead dogs' and 'the honor of corpses.' He transports to the dump the bodies of unwanted animals who have been put down, and discovers that the workmen often have to break the dogs' now rigid limbs in order to fit them into the incinerator. He takes over the disposal job himself and wonders why:
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