Abstract

ARCE, Rafael. FROM THE TRANSCENDENCE OF DEATH TO THE ECONOMY OF LIFE. “CABALLO EN EL SALITRAL” BY ANTONIO DI BENEDETTO. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.23, pp.52-65.  Epub Feb 05, 2021. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/penfrasis202112.23.03.

Animality is a recurring subject in the narrative work of Antonio Di Benedetto. In this article, I focus on one of his most famous stories, “Caballo en el salitral” (1961). Based on some concepts of Jakob Von Uexküll (surrounding-world), Martin Heidegger (poverty of world and captivation) and Jacques Derrida (survival), this paper proposes a reading of “Caballo en el salitral” that attempts to exceed the symbolic reduction of the story to its human significance. By contrast, we conjecture a speculative commitment to the notions of organism, animality, life and death in which literary, philosophical and scientific imagination converge.

Keywords : Antonio Di Benedetto; Caballo en el salitral; Argentinian literature; contemporary philosophy; animal studies.

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