The aesthetic and political animal in “Letter to a lady in Paris”, by Julio Cortázar

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https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v33.69208

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Animal. Men. Biopolitics. Julio Cortázar.

Abstract

This study investigates the presence of the animal in the short story Letter to a lady in Paris (1951), by Julio Cortázar. Through a biopolitical perspective, proposed by Giorgio Agamben, a parallel was established between the domination of the non-human in Western culture and the domination of the human in the contemporary register – a debate installed in the aforementioned narrative. Thus, virtual potencies are found in the Cortezian animal, based on Gabriel Giorgi, among other authors, who harass the oppressive structures of factual reality, reconfiguring the conceptions of humanity and animality in order to reach new economies of life.

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Lauro Roberto do Carmo Figueira , Federal University of Western Pará

Graduated in Full Degree in Letters - Portuguese Language, by the Federal University of Pará (1991); Master's Degree in Literary Theory from the Federal University of Pará (1998); and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Porto, Portugal (2007, with revalidation by the Federal University of Santa Catarina, 2008). He spent a year (2015/2016) developing research for the Postdoctoral Internship Program, funded by CAPES, at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), with research on the teaching of Literature in Secondary Education (Portugal) and High School (Brazil ). Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Oeste do Pará. He has experience in the field of Letters, in undergraduate and graduate studies (PROFLETRAS), with an emphasis on teaching Literature and Literary Theory, working mainly on the following subjects: Brazilian Literature, Literature Portuguese, Literary Criticism, Literature in Latin America, Literature of Amazonian expression, Fantastic Literature, Real Maravilhoso. Research with emphasis on the fiction of Inglês de Sousa and on the criticism and fiction of José Veríssimo. Coordinates a research project on the teaching of Literature and coordinated two Teaching Projects related to teaching activities in the Teaching of Literature and the Portuguese Language (Institutional Scholarship Program for Teaching Initiation (PIBID), with academic scholarship holders and high school and high school teachers. He has administrative experience, being, on two occasions, coordinator of the Literature course (UFPA/Santarém campus and UFOPA/Santarém).

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Published

2022-02-03

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SILVA, H. B. da; FIGUEIRA , L. R. do C. . The aesthetic and political animal in “Letter to a lady in Paris”, by Julio Cortázar. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 33, p. e69208, 2022. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v33.69208. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/69208. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 33 (2021)

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Dossiê de Estudos Literários

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