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What is the message in Jean Bruller’s (Vercors’) Novel, and You Shall Know Them.
Vercors addresses the inconclusiveness of the law defining murder as the illegal killing of a human being without in any way defining a human being. His novel (and you shall know them) does not resolve the problem, but it does alert readers to the generally ignored existence of it, embracing, among other contexts, the questions of euthanasia and cruelty to animals. He believes that if any of these species would have survived….