Memories of a child dog. The inhumanity of the human in the narrative of Pablo Farrés

This article proposes a reading of the novel Literatura argentina (2011) by the Argentine Pablo Farrés. The main hypothesis holds that the animality in this narrative, articulated in the figure of the dog, establishes a relationship between low body materialism and schizophrenic hallucinatory percep...

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Autor: Arce, Rafael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
Repositorio:Terra Roxa e Outras Terras: Revista de Estudos Literários
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/45518
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/terraroxa/article/view/45518
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:dog
anthropotechnics
materialism
cachorro
antropotecnia
materialismo
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Sumario:This article proposes a reading of the novel Literatura argentina (2011) by the Argentine Pablo Farrés. The main hypothesis holds that the animality in this narrative, articulated in the figure of the dog, establishes a relationship between low body materialism and schizophrenic hallucinatory perception. Argentine literature constitutes an exploration of human artifice in terms of memory of the species and questioning of individual subjectivity. Literatura argentina constitutes an exploration of human artifice in terms of memory of the species and questioning of individual subjectivity. From this perspective, schizophrenia is the non-individual, non-speciesist perception of the world that the living being inhabits. Literature, for Farrés, is the collective enunciation of a species that explores its non-human foundation, suggesting an evolutionism that goes back to the dog as a primordial ancestor.