Becoming-animal as a transgression in three post-Soviet Lithuanian novels (Vilnius poker, Tūla and Parousia)
ENThe present article puts into dialogue three novels - Jurgis Kunčinas's "Tūla", Ričardas Gavelis's "Vilnius Poker", and Gintaras Beresnevičius's "Parousia" - with the concept of becoming-animal developed by Deleuze and Guattari, Brookís concept of the structuring power of ending for narrative, the notion of performatives by Judith Butler, and the concept of transgressive fictions in order to find out how these concepts could illuminate the strategic use of animals in post-Soviet Lithuanian narratives. The paper proposes the idea that the strategy of the deployment of the image of becoming-animal is one of the underlying principles in the construction of these narratives and the becoming-animal is a kind of destruction of the stereotype that to become an animal is a kind of "degradation" or "degeneration".
