Published: 2024-12-31

Knowing the Animals : Colette et Pergaud

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Abstract

Colette and Louis Pergaud differ in style and themes of their writing. However, they unite in their love for animals and the desire to paint them in a truthful way. There is another desire behind the first one, that of bringing a greater understanding of the animal world to the public. In order to achieve this, Colette and Pergaud paint humans behaving towards animals in radically different ways. Indeed, while some of their characters show deep empathy for animals, others are wary of them and even hate them. Jealousy also plays an important role. The present study focuses on all these elements, in order to identify the ways in which Colette and Pergaud use the animal theme to link it to universal and profoundly humanist subjects. The relationship between the human and the non-human is, for these precursors of eco-sensitivity, a measure of their value, and thus they achieve two objectives: awakening the consciences of their contemporaries and shedding a new light on the relations between species.

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Staroń, A. (2024). Knowing the Animals : Colette et Pergaud. Romanica Silesiana, 26(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2024.26.05

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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2024)
Published: 2025-12-01


ISSN: 1898-2433
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