DES LOUPS, DES PANTHÈRES… ET DES FEMMES SELON OLIVIA ROSENTHAL (Wolves, panthers … and women according to Olivia Rosenthal)

Abstract

In her novel Que font les rennes après Noël ? Olivia Rosenthal interweaves a documentary on animals, based on testimonies gathered from professionals who work in contact with animals and a biographical fiction: the story of a woman, from her childhood to adulthood, until the moment when She assumes her homosexuality. This complex weaving makes it possible to address most of the questions that the contemporary world poses about the animal world, but above all, to question the savagery and the domestication – of the human as well as the animal.

Keywords

• human being
• human condition
• animal condition
• taming
• savagery
• documentary
• biography
• homosexuality
• holocaust