"'Ha ha'-il compendieusement":
animal tautology and literary cartography in Alfred Jarry's Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien
Keywords:
animality, literary cartography, grotesque, metadiscourseAbstract
From a literary approach, this work turns to the 19th century French writer Alfred Jarry and to the presence of the animal question in his work. Such a question is central to him and is developed from the configuration of a metadiscursive regime, which founds the context of Jarry's work and the context of the aesthetic renovation of the avant-garde. So, in Jarry's case, it is an alternative and a complete literary cartography of the referential environment in which it is generated under the influence of ambiguous heterogeneity fed by the animal presence, which, therefore, relativizes any ontological certainty. Thanks to the animal figure of the cynocephalus papio Bosse-de-Nage, fiction recovers the possibility of producing and configuring its own semantics in an immanent and sufficient way, encoding its enunciation by imitating the principles symbolized by the discursive tautology articulated by animal, which works as a kind of chorus throughout the novel.
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