“Tipos impredecibles de ‘nosotros’”: Julio Cortázar y la imaginación zoopoética

Abstract

This article analyzes Julio Cortázar's short story "Axolotl" from a zoopoetic perspective, exploring humananimal metamorphosis as a paradigm of zoopoetic writing. Driscoll articulates his analysis through Jacques Derrida's theories on animal thought and poetry, examining how the interspecies encounter triggers a transformation that reveals the textual nature of literature. The study examines the story's intertextual relationships and its connection to Georges Bataille's poetics, conceptualizing axolotls as "material-semiotic knots" following Donna Haraway. This establishes zoopoetics as both a mode of writing and critical reading that challenges anthropocentric interpretations and recognizes animals as cocreators of meaning.