Fraturas no real: Literatura e animalidade em Julio Cortázar

Abstract

The present work aims to verify the emergency of the animal in Julio Cortázar's literature, demonstrating it as a stage in which formal relations between human and non-human are shaken, focusing on the short story Letter to a Miss in Paris (1951). Starting from the reflec-tions of Gabriel Giorggi, Giorgio Agamben, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, among others, it seek to affirm the animal of Cortázar as the instance that places the human before his animality, questioning the technologies of power over life and initiating alternative forms of subject. In short, in the argentine author's writing, there will be a demand for a new reality, new body grammars and other subjectivities, raised by the animal as a virtual sign, an agent of becoming and a fundamental coordinate of naked life, according to a perspective of common sense, however, of full materiality for the imaginary and fiction.