The animal as representative figure of mismatches loving and human loneliness

Abstract

This work aims to show through zooliterary studies perspective how the relationship between man and animal in Manuel Bandeira's poem "Porquinho-daíndia" and in Luiz Vilela's short-story "Zoiuda" is motivated by the need to affection revealed by incommunicability and loneliness that marks the enunciation of the lyrical subject in the poem and the character's psychology in the short-story. Our hypothesis is that this configuration gives the animal anthropomorphic aspects, more precisely of a woman, revealing the mismatch loving that marks the trajectory of the subjects of these fictions.