Five years after his collection of poetry Supermarkets (The Lizard in Love), where she spoke of her relationship to the city following in the footsteps of Geneviève Desrosiers and Marie Uguay, Amélie Hébert turns to the short story in order to examine the relationship between humans and animals. “I, of course, love animals, but does that really mean anything? Is it enough for the animals to be happy with me? Probably not. Evoking in turn Gabrielle Roy, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London and George Orwell, the eight short stories of Livestock transport the reader into stories of fiction, autofiction and docufiction where the animal does not always escape the violence, voluntary or not, of the human being – from the most cruel to the most benevolent. Whether it takes place in the forest, in the countryside, in the city, in the circus, in the laboratory or in the slaughterhouse, each short story raises awareness without lapsing into revengeful activism or primary morality.
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