Abstract
ANIMALS IN FARRELL: THE WORKINGS OF THE HERMENEUTIC CODE
Critics’ references to animals in Farrell suggest these animals as a quite sustained feature. But most of them like to simplify the relevant issue by talking rather of Farrell’s attitude towards animals or about animals’ symbolic value. This paper, however, tries to suggest that these animals have a compelling narrative role, a role that both enhances and advances the narrative reality. Apropos, the hermeneutic details realise, through these animals, an intriguing world. By narratively establishing that world, Ferrell alerts us to the relevance of this world to his humane vision and to us as beings organically interlocked with that vague world.
Keywords
animals, hermeneutic codification, narrative role, relevance, vision.
