Abstract: In this hunting novel of 1938, Genevoix enters the viewpoint of a stag and the context in which it perceives and acts. Preferring the psycho-account to an animalistic inner monologue, he conveys the terror of stags and deer during a hunt, and the sensory amazement of the stag on its escape. Attentive to the spatial memory of animals, verging at points on anthropomorphism, this novel evokes an intelligent way of being in the world and can be read in relation to work on animal psychology.
