Entre ordre et chaos – Aux limites de la folie : L’homme et l’imaginaire animal en littérature
Between Order and Chaos – At the Limits of Madness: Man and Animal Imagery in Literature

Summary/Abstract: With a continuous reference to some Western authors, this article tries to outline a perspective on the animal imagery in modern age literature (the 19th and 20th centuries),by making a list and a quick analysis of many examples and aspects of perception and sensation, of the symbols and the becomings of the act of writing when related to the animal world. In our endeavour, we started from Spengler and Junger’s interpretations of history, used Deleuze’s philosophical tools, and recovered,among the others, Hermann Melville’s, D. H. Lawrence’s and Henry Miller’s intuitions. Men are part of this biological sphere, but they also are different from beasts. Men can observe, approach, use, imitate, follow, relate to beasts and to their examples and make stories, symbols, myths, allegories out of them, or even become similar to them. The aim can be to find back some deep instinctive and living sides of our being. The high risk can be the drift into madness

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