Câmara Cascudo and his “animals written” on the Corner of Wall
Cascudo Chamber. Fabulation. Animality. Devir-animal. Animal-writing.
The work of thesis here is focused on the novel Canto de muro (2006), from CâmaraCascudo (1898 - 1986 - Natal-RN). From a qualitative, bibliographical and interpretative research, we show that the author remains a researcher, even in the writing of the literary text, because the novel was produced through the daily observation of the behavior of the animal characters. In it, the author presents a modern and new form of fable, in which animals are not large ones, as in traditional fable, but are those considered by society to be insignificant, such as the cockroach, the bat, the mouse, the scorpion, among others. In order to understand the thematic aspects present in this cascudian work, we sought support in the reflections of Merleau-Ponty (2002), Didi-Huberman (2010) and Nancy Huston (2010), with respect respectively to poeticity in world observation, absence of an evident truth and the construction of truths through fiction. We articulate these reflections with the thinking of the French Deleuze and Guattari (1995, 1996, 1997, 2002), with regard to nomadism, writing as a war machine, deterritorialization, minor literature, animal becoming and animal-writing. From this animal perspective, we also resort to Derrida's theory (2011). To dialogue with Derrida's ideas, we turn to Maciel's (2016) thinking about animality. In line with the proposed reflections, we have the theoretical support of Foucault (2013), Rancière (2009), Barthes (2003; 2004) and Sousa (2006), aiming to show that Cascudo poses as a thinker who, through writing literary, contributes to a different view of animals, thus escaping from the anthropocentric aspect. The questions developed by Cascudo, with respect to animals, are crossed by external routes in the folds, as directed by Levy (2011).