La imposibilidad de lo humano. Zoocrítica, retórica de lo abyecto y metáforas de la esterilidad en la narrativa de Lautréamont y Tarik Carson

Abstract

The article faces the challenge to bring under a critical vision the topic of an “impossibility of the human nature”, and also to open doors to reflection in connection with this subject, through the works of two Uruguayan authors: Tarik Carson da Silva and El Conde de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse). The analysis will be particularly focused on Carson’s tales: “El hombre olvidado”, “Inferencias sobre Pérez Loid” and “Ogedinrof”, and on Los Cantos de Maldoror, by Lautréamont. In that sense, the investigation attempts to present, theoretically  –from a zoocritic vision of literature, from a rhetoric of the abject (specially the one formulated by Julia Kristeva) and, finally, from a textual analysis concerning the metaphors of infertility and unproductivity in the aforementioned texts–, an original and alternative reading of these authors, who, over the years, have been considered by the critics as merely rare, evil and marginal writers. From this point of view, more than an author’s defense, this article intends to show the unusual proposal implicit in Lautréamont and Carson narrative, as a springboard for the development of future researches, and to shed light upon a rich and promising thematic in the unexhausted map of genres, such as fantastic literature and science fiction.