As reverberações de um gato narrador em As horas nuas de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

This research proposes the study of the novel As horas nuas (1989) by Lygia Fagundes Telles. The focus of the analysis is the zooliteratura, a field that studies the animal from a transdisciplinary perspective, investigating different aspects of the relationship between humans and animals. Our special attention is dedicated to Rahul, one of the novel's narrators and a cat. We will also turn our attention to some of the author's short stories in which the presence of animals is also noted, especially in narratives in which dogs and cats appear. We aim to question the role of the animals in the works of Lygia Fagundes Telles and what effect is generated by the recurrent presence of these animals. The hypothesis is that the author uses these animals to try to understand human nature, as if the treatment given to the animals by their owners was an unmasking of the true essence of these people. The methodology used is bibliographic type and it has the theoretical and critical support of Gérard Genette, Wayne Booth and Maria Lúcia Dal Farra, as reference for the study of the novel, and Maria Esther Maciel, a reference and a pioneer in Brazil when relating to studies in zooliteratura