O ANIMAL QUE ME TORNEI: METAMORFOSE E ANIMALIDADE COMO TEORIZAÇÃO DO CONCEITO DE IDENTIDADE NO ROMANCE LYGIANO

Abstract

This work aims to propose, from the novels of Lygia Fagundes Telles, a theory of identity that recovers animality and includes the concept of metamorphosis. The dissertation is divided into three chapters. Each chapter, presents as an introduction and as an invitation to reflect both on the concepts and analysis presented there and on the reading process itself, a self-authorship short story. In the first, we bring the concept of identity, metamorphosis and animality, each one preceded by a literary illustration based on a citation, as an epigraph, of the author’s texts studied. The second chapter aims to bring to the reader an overview of the fauna found in the author’s novels and the categorization of this fauna in internal animals, animals as others and symbolic animals. Finally, the third chapter deals with the theory of identity to which we refer in the goals of the research. From the analysis made, it was possible to verify that the Telles’ novels bring in the texture of their narratives a proposal of identity theory that includes the concepts of metamorphosis and animality.