Abstract: Can we identify with an animal, that is to say, think and speak in his place? This article shows from three examples taken from Olivia Rosenthal, Jean-Loup Trassard and Jean-Christophe Bailly, how these writers constitute their texts as identification exercises: the text is an attempt to approach the animal figure, to stick to the nearest, while leaving the gap of a dissimilarity. The failures of identification are then understood as a way to let the animal’s full of his secret.
