« Quand les espèces se rencontrent » dans l’oeuvre de Victor Hugo

Abstract

This article focuses on how Victor Hugo questions the relationship between humans and animals, considered as relational beings, in the fictional, theatrical and poetic work published during his lifetime. From a predominantly zoopoetic and stylistic perspective, and in a largely diachronic approach, it evaluates the place and the modalities of the denunciation of violence against animals, which it recaptures in the perspective of an incentive to rethink ethnozoological relationships by underlying the importance of a compassionate gaze. It also examines the possibility for animals to have the power to act in interspecific relationships. 

Keywords: zoopoetics, animal, ecology, relationship, vulnerability.