Animal/humano: proximidades y fronteras en "Mundo animal" y otros textos de Antonio Di Benedetto

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Instituto de Investigaciones Literarias y Discursivas, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
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Antonio Di Benedetto (1922-1986), uno de los escritores argentinos más importantes del siglo XX, publica en 1953 Mundo animal, volumen de cuentos en el que es fundamental, como su título lo explicita, la figura animal. Dentro del universo ficcional de la obra, esta figura se encarna en lo humano y viceversa, sugiriendo una humanidad que, más allá de sus atributos exclusivos -razón y lenguaje- comparte con otros seres vivientes un amplio sustrato común. Esta configuración existencial no solo provoca vacilaciones en el lector, sino que tiene implicancias ontológicas, es decir, incita a la interrogación sobre los esquemas de sentido y la condición humana presentes en estas historias fantástico-alegóricas. Este artículo propone indagar e interpretar, en la escritura de Di Benedetto, la ficcionalización de estos encuentros y fronteras entre lo animal y lo humano, analizando diferentes manifestaciones textuales de esta cuestión: el procedimiento del quid pro quo, los narradores no humanos, la animalidad de los niños, la relación con las patologías psíquicas, la proximidad ontológica entre los dos mundos, la metáfora del espejo, la corporalidad.
Antonio Di Benedetto (1922-1986), one of the most important Argentinean writers of the twentieth century, published in 1953 Mundo Animal, a volume of short stories in which the animal figure becomes fundamental, as its title makes explicit. Within the fictional universe of the work, this figure is incarnated in the human and vice versa, suggesting that humanity, beyond its exclusive attributes –reason and language–, shares a broad common substratum with other living beings. This existential configuration not only provokes hesitations in the reader, but has also ontological implications, that is, it leads to questioning about meaning schemes and the human condition in these fantasticallegorical stories. The purpose of this paper is then to investigate and interpret Di Benedetto’s fictionalization of these encounters and borders between the animal and the human, analyzing different textual manifestations of this question: the quid pro quo procedure, the non-human narrators, the animality of children, the relationship with psychic pathologies, the ontological proximity between the two worlds, the metaphor of the mirror, and the corporality.
Antonio Di Benedetto (1922-1986), one of the most important Argentinean writers of the twentieth century, published in 1953 Mundo Animal, a volume of short stories in which the animal figure becomes fundamental, as its title makes explicit. Within the fictional universe of the work, this figure is incarnated in the human and vice versa, suggesting that humanity, beyond its exclusive attributes –reason and language–, shares a broad common substratum with other living beings. This existential configuration not only provokes hesitations in the reader, but has also ontological implications, that is, it leads to questioning about meaning schemes and the human condition in these fantasticallegorical stories. The purpose of this paper is then to investigate and interpret Di Benedetto’s fictionalization of these encounters and borders between the animal and the human, analyzing different textual manifestations of this question: the quid pro quo procedure, the non-human narrators, the animality of children, the relationship with psychic pathologies, the ontological proximity between the two worlds, the metaphor of the mirror, and the corporality.
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