Corpos invisíveis em Julio Cortázar: o não humano na esfera do matável

Abstract

The present study aims to focus on bodies invisible to the juridic order in Julio Cortázar's writing, from the reading of the short story Letter to a Young Lady in Paris (1951). It’s based in the discussion of Giorgio Agamben about the homo sacer – figure of the archaic Roman law, unspeakable and, at the same time killable – it seeks to analyze in the narrative of the Cortázar the way like the non-human, therefore classified by the anthropological machine (AGAMBEN, 2007, p. 51), it enters the killability sphere. In this way, the man falls in the same vulnerability level as the animal, dismantling existing ethical borders between both of them, certified by Jacques Derrida (2002). For consequence, it understands, with Gabriel Giorgi (2016), that the life recognized as human becomes increasingly difficult to measure in the present. So, in addition to verify in the narrative of the prose writer Cortázar the contemporary policies that cross the protagonist’s body and subjectivity, subtracting it’s value, the animal is evidenced, demarcating the threshold of this exceptional reality, where life becomes killable.