The Pigeons at the Statue of Diderot
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https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.08.07Keywords:
William Wharton, animal studies, birds, pigeons, ornithologyAbstract
Pigeons are not domestic animals. They often live in the centers of big cities — like Paris — waiting for food. Birds are associated with billing, mating dance and diseases. They are so-called nuisance animals. Nevertheless, these animals are important in William Wharton’s books. There are multiple viewpoints how to analyze them — as a part of the landscape, witnesses of newborn affection between Mirabelle and Jacques or independent characters. Wharton emphasizes the presence of birds in the novel Last Lovers. Mirabelle has been taking care of pigeons for thirty years. Her care of them contrasts sharply with Jacques’ views. He does not like pigeons at first because they interrupt him and change his creative vision of the Statue of Diderot in the background. When the characters meet, the birds will consider it.
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